Editor’s Note: The California legislature recently passed a pay transparency bill. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed it into law on Sept. 27. Under the bill, now enacted into law, employers with 15 or more employees will have... Read more »
?Pushed along by new state and local laws, more companies are increasing their transparency about pay. Seventeen percent of companies are already disclosing pay range information, even in locations where it’s not... Read more »
?New Jersey recently joined a growing number of states that have taken legislative efforts to significantly limit the enforceability of post-employment restrictive covenants, such as noncompete and nonsolicitation agreements. Notably, if AB... Read more »
?Takeaway: Courts can reject arbitration agreements based on equitable principles. Nonetheless, they must carefully consider state contract law to determine how and if such principles apply. An arbitration agreement is not automatically... Read more »
?Takeaway: An employer has discretion in assigning job duties, but assigning an unsafe or disfavored task can be an adverse action for the purposes of proving retaliation. Employers should avoid assigning a... Read more »
?The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announced it is expanding the criteria for placement in its Severe Violator Enforcement Program (SVEP) list. The result will be more employers on the... Read more »
?On Sept. 15, the Cal/OSHA Standards Board held a public hearing on a proposed non-emergency COVID-19 two-year standard. The hearing and subsequent board discussion demonstrated that there remains a great deal of... Read more »
?On Sept. 23, the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) proposed additional rules relating to Local Law 144 of 2021, which will regulate the use of automated employment... Read more »
?Takeaway: A claim for discrimination based on a workplace injury or the filing of a workers’ compensation claim does not examine the same issues as a claim for disability bias under California’s... Read more »
Everything HR Needs to Know About Sabbaticals Employees taking sabbaticals? You heard me correctly—sabbaticals are becoming increasingly more common in the non-academic world, especially in the private sector. A 2018 study by... Read more »