Tag: Compliance

June 14, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly prevalent in workplaces, providing new opportunities and new challenges for employers and employees. While AI has the potential to improve efficiency and productivity, its use also raises important questions around issues like privacy, discrimination, […]

May 17, 2024

The landscape of human resources and employment contracts is poised for a significant shift following the Federal Trade Commission’s ban on noncompete clauses. This policy change is expected to reshape how businesses retain talent — and protect their assets. HR […]

April 1, 2024

Maintaining fairness and transparency in the workplace continues to be instrumental in meeting the expectations of a modern and socially conscious workforce. Research from Gartner predicts that in 2024, companies will shift DEI implementation to be less siloed and more […]

January 26, 2024

A collection of aerospace companies has agreed to settle with workers who alleged that the companies engaged in an illegal no-poach agreement with one company, Cyient Inc., set to pay $7.4 million, according to court documents filed Wednesday. The news […]

January 2, 2024

Rolling out even ordinary workplace rules can put in-house counsel in a legal minefield if the organization tries to do it while employees are unionizing, labor specialists say. The National Labor Relations Board earlier this year changed how it evaluates […]

December 18, 2023

McDonald’s did not comment on whether its efforts to ensure franchisee compliance with child labor laws, safety standards and hours procedures constituted the sort of “indirect” or “reserved” control over essential conditions of employment laid out in a National Labor […]

December 15, 2023

What factors separate a compliance-based HR function from one that operates more strategically? New research highlights changing priorities and practices that set strategic HR functions apart from others. A significant differentiator is how HR purchases, deploys and governs new technologies. […]

December 8, 2023

Pay transparency laws are raising tough issues for in-house counsel as they try to balance compliance with the Biden administration’s stepped-up focus on antitrust concerns in the labor market. “The antitrust law hasn’t changed, but there’s obviously wage transparency laws […]

September 22, 2023

It’s an understatement to say that the pandemic experience has changed the business—and workplace—landscape forever. The shift to remote and hybrid work is not temporary as business leaders once believed. It’s here to stay. With this shift comes risk—and an […]

September 20, 2023

A trucking company allegedly tolerated harassment of — and eventually terminated — two gay mechanics at a facility in North Jackson, Ohio, over their sexual orientation, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission said in a lawsuit filed Sept. 15. The […]

September 11, 2023

The pay transparency movement is gaining momentum. In the past few years, several states and cities have put laws and regulations in place that require employers to include salary ranges in their job postings. Employers operating under pay transparency requirements […]

September 5, 2023

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to move the needle on its interpretation of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in favor of unions. For example, in Memorandum GC 23-02 entitled “Electronic Monitoring and Algorithmic Management of Employees Interfering […]

August 9, 2023

As the Department of Labor ramps up efforts to improve awareness of the new Providing Urgent Maternal Protections (PUMP) for Nursing Mothers Act, employers may want to take this time — as August is National Breastfeeding Month — to consider […]

June 16, 2023

As a wave of new legislation on artificial intelligence use in the workplace looms ahead, Kelly Dobbs Bunting, a shareholder at management-side law firm Greenberg Traurig LLP, urged attendees Tuesday at the Society for Human Resources Management annual conference in […]

April 17, 2023

Starbucks is among the corporations that has experienced a spike in workplace misconduct complaints in recent years as employees returned to work following the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The multinational coffee chain has responded in part by increasing internal […]

March 30, 2023

How the EEOC planned to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic’s widespread shift of the workforce to remote work — and the resulting suggestion of its growing suitability as a reasonable accommodation — has been of interest to businesses and employment […]

March 9, 2023

When the clock strikes 3 a.m. on March 12, talent working night shifts may face hiccups in logging their hours. Because time “springs forward” in March, graveyard shifts that typically include the 2:00 a.m. to 3:00 a.m. stretch of time […]

February 27, 2023

In the 30 years since former President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act into law, a number of lawsuits have set precedents for how the protected leave legislation is interpreted. Attorneys who specialize in the statute and […]

October 20, 2022

Employment attorneys often caution employers that it only takes one uninformed or overzealous manager to trigger a lawsuit. HR departments can minimize this risk by training front-line supervisors and department heads on how to properly respond to information about medical […]

October 18, 2022

There’s a growing tendency for workers to request mobility in the labor market. Coupled with this is a growing tendency for businesses to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees. This phenomenon has been dubbed a “gig” economy. Recently, […]