?The Minnesota Supreme Court recently issued its first significant decision interpreting the state’s employment discrimination law, the Minnesota Human Rights Act (MHRA), in three years. In a ruling that will likely be... Read more »
?The U.S. Senate on March 1 voted to overturn the month-old regulation that allows fiduciaries to consider environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) factors when choosing retirement investments. The resolution will head... Read more »
?States reported that 190,000 workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Feb. 25, a decrease of 2,000 from the previous week’s unrevised level. The number of workers continuing to claim unemployment benefits fell to... Read more »
?Back in 2012, Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize recreational marijuana. As of today, 21 states and Washington, D.C., have legalized the recreational use of marijuana, and the... Read more »
?Technological advances create changes in companies—and jobs—of all kinds. The pace of change has become so rapid that it’s hard, if not impossible, for educational institutions to keep up. Even the most... Read more »
There’s a lot of truth in the Shakespeare quote “What’s past is prologue”—the idea that history can lay the groundwork for the present. Doris Kearns Goodwin, a presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning... Read more »
The future of work is here. First, advances in technology are changing the way people work and require additional training. Second, employees have different expectations of employers and that is influencing leadership,... Read more »
?Takeaway: A trial court lacks power to even consider the merits of an employer’s objections to an arbitration award where the employer failed to meet the statutory deadline for challenging the award.... Read more »
?Takeaway: Reading a provision of the California Labor Code together with a provision of the California Code of Civil Procedure leads to the conclusion that where weekly wages are due to be... Read more »
A case that will determine whether National Guard technicians can keep their union rights. Religious Accommodations On April 18, the court will hear oral arguments in a lawsuit over when employers can... Read more »