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Finding the right balance between work and personal time can be tough, but it’s especially challenging when the e-mail from the office never stops. Even when the volume of off-hours messages isn’t enough to be a serious time drain, it still interrupts personal time. So can just the nagging thought that an e-mail from the […]
Organizations can appreciate the importance of training hiring managers in asking appropriate (and legal) preemployment questions. However, new legislation may make it so that they have a new topic to avoid during the application and interview process: the candidate’s salary history.
Yes, we know that this should go without saying—it’s well-established that pregnancy discrimination is against the law. However, an employer is facing a lawsuit after telling employees that the next person to get pregnant should stay home and consider herself fired.
The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will not review an appeals court ruling that a wage and hour complaint lodged by a human resources director can be “protected activity” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) as long as he or she is not responsible for compliance with the law.
By Megan Walker, Fisher Phillips The Federal Equal Pay Act was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy in 1963. Fifty-three years later, lawmakers across the United States are still searching for ways to narrow the pay gap between men and women. California is one of the states that is leading the way—so what […]
By Jeff Sloan and Susan Yoon, Renne Sloan Holtzman Sakai LLP In a groundbreaking decision issued in August, the California Court of Appeal shot down a constitutional challenge brought by employees and their unions against the Marin County Employees’ Retirement Association’s (MCERA) action to eliminate certain forms of “spiking” payments from being included in the […]
Update: A ruling on the November 16 injunction hearing is expected on November 22. We will provide coverage on the ruling once it is issued. A federal district court has agreed to fast-track a lawsuit challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime regulation. The court has scheduled oral arguments for November 16, just […]
By Kate McGovern Tornone, Editor It’s an easy scenario to imagine: an employee goes out on leave and, when another employee takes on his work, she discovers performance deficiencies and maybe even misconduct. Is the employee’s job protected just because he is out on “job-protected” leave?
In previous installments of this article series, we’ve covered employers’ Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) notice obligations to employees, but what are employees’ obligations to their employers if they are taking leave?
We have an employee who was on an approved FMLA for child bonding for about 2 ½ months. During this time, he worked about 10 hours. His occupation is IT, so he was “on call” while he was off so he could work whenever he was needed. I am reluctant to ding his vacation accrual […]