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NYC Releases Anti-Harassment Training Video
As discussed in our New York Quarterly Newsletters, employers in New York City who have 15 or more employees (inclusive of independent contractors) are required to provide anti-sexual harassment...
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Washington State’s New Noncompetition Laws
Washington state employers that rely on noncompetition agreements will face a dramatically different legal landscape beginning Jan. 1, 2020, when a new noncompetition law takes effect. ENGROSSED...
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Connecticut to Raise Minimum Wage to $15 Per Hour
On May 28, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont signed Public Act No. 19-4, entitled “An Act Increasing the Minimum Fair Wage,” that will raise the Connecticut minimum wage to $15.00 per hour in 2023, which...
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Colorado Takes a Strict Stance in New Equal Pay for Equal Work Act
Colorado tightened its protections for pay equity when the state’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act (the “Act”) was signed into law on May 22. The Act, which will take effect on Jan. 1, 2021, provides...
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Bank settles $5 million parental leave discrimination lawsuit
In a follow-up to our August 2018 blog post regarding a $1.1 million class settlement of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) first parental leave lawsuit against a large cosmetics...
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Panic Buttons for New Jersey Hotel Housekeepers
On June 11, Gov. Phil Murphy, D-N.J., signed into law legislation that will require hotels that have 100 or more guest rooms to provide their housekeepers and room service employees with panic buttons...
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Colorado Shores Up Employee Protections for Criminal History Inquiries, Wage...
Colorado’s 2019 legislative session was busy, including producing a trio of new employment laws that tighten regulations on employers in the areas of pay equity, criminal history inquiries and wage...
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Connecticut Passes Generous Paid Family and Medical Leave Law
Joining a steadily growing national trend, the Connecticut Legislature recently passed a generous paid family and medical leave bill, which will make Connecticut the seventh state — in addition to...
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High Times for Employees in Nevada: New Restrictions on Preemployment...
Beginning in 2020, Nevada employers can no longer refuse to hire a job applicant for failing a preemployment marijuana screening test. The law, known as “AB132,” became effective on June 5 and is the...
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New York State Expected to Vastly Overhaul Harassment/Discrimination Laws Again
Late on June 19, New York lawmakers passed a bill that makes wide-sweeping changes to New York State discrimination and harassment law. Gov. Andrew Cuomo has indicated that he will sign the bill, but...
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Texas Legislature and Courts Clash With Cities Over Mandatory Sick Leave:...
Dallas has become the third city in Texas, following Austin and San Antonio, to pass a city ordinance requiring private-sector employers to offer paid sick leave to their employees. The ordinances have...
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Paid Family and Medical Leave Is Coming to Oregon
Earlier this month, Oregon passed its own paid family and medical leave act (the act), making it the eighth state in the country to pass such a law. Oregon joins California, Massachusetts, New Jersey,...
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UPDATE: Texas Legislature and Courts Clash With Cities Over Mandatory Sick...
This is an update to a previous post from June 24, 2019. Earlier today, Dallas became the last of the three Texas cities to face a legal challenge to its paid sick leave ordinance, which is scheduled...
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New York State Bans Race Discrimination Based on Hair Texture and Hairstyles
We previously reported that the NYC Commission on Human Rights issued legal enforcement guidance for employers regarding racial discrimination on the basis of hair under the New York City Human Rights...
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California Supreme Court reopens the door for SLAPPing retaliation and...
The California Supreme Court has ruled that a former employee’s retaliation or discrimination claim can be dismissed at the initial stages of litigation via California’s anti-SLAPP statute. In Wilson...
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UPDATE: New York State Expected to Vastly Overhaul Harassment/Discrimination...
As we reported in our blog post, and our summer newsletter, in late June, the New York Legislature passed a bill that vastly changed the discrimination and harassment landscape for employers. Today,...
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New Jersey and Illinois Join the Salary History Ban Train
On July 25, 2019, Acting Gov. Sheila Oliver signed NJ A1094 (“the Law”) banning salary history requests in New Jersey. The Law will take effect on Jan. 1, 2020. The Law makes it unlawful for an...
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New Job Protections for Medical Marijuana Users in New Jersey
Last month, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy signed into law the Jake Honig Compassionate Use Medical Cannabis Act (the Act), amending the New Jersey Compassionate Use Medical Marijuana Act (NJCUMMA)....
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NLRB Adopts Standard Making it Easier for Employers to Make Unilateral...
Labor Board Ditches the “Clear and Unmistakable Waiver” Standard in Favor of the Employer-Friendly “Contract Coverage” Test 2019 has been the “Summer of Love” for employers at the Trump-administration...
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California Court of Appeal Concludes That Claims Under Labor Code 2800 and...
In a win for California employers, the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth District held in Southern California Pizza Co., LLC v. Certain Underwriters at Lloyd’s, London Subscribing to Policy...
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