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by Tammy Binford

Employers worried about the effect of a new joint employer rule are breathing a sigh of relief after a court blocked its implementation, and now employers using independent contractors may also be feeling better.

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On February 16, 2024, the New Jersey Appellate Division dismissed without a trial a former tenured professor’s complaint against a university that was filed because he disagreed with the findings of his discharge hearing...

Apr 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia

Q One of our employees has been in and out with cold and flu symptoms, but he was recently diagnosed with strep throat. The leave originally wasn’t classified as Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave, but because the...

Apr 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota

Whether an employer is successful in getting an employment discrimination case dismissed often depends on whether it can show it had an “honest belief” in a nondiscriminatory reason for its employment decision. To...

Apr 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin

A recent case from West Texas reminds us yet again that lawyers representing employees fight tooth and nail to keep their clients out of arbitration—and to get their claims to a jury of their peers. Slip and fall Mary...

Apr 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Texas

Employers have seen an enormous number of changes recently to various rules about how they manage their employee base. This includes a notice of proposed rulemaking by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) in late 2023...

Apr 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota

Over the past few years, collegiate athletes’ rights have continued to expand, with name, image, and likeness (NIL) deals being a hot topic of conversation and a way for student athletes to obtain significant...

Apr 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma

Remote work has been all the rage in recent years. Initially, employees were working from home because offices were closed by government mandate. While working from home, employees were usually working in the same town...

Apr 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia

It’s that time of year again! No, we’re not referring to spring. On Tuesday, April 30, 2024, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) will open its portal for filing 2023 EEO-1 data. The deadline for...

Apr 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma

On February 16, 2024, the New Jersey Appellate Division upheld the dismissal of a whistleblowing claim filed by a former supervisor. The court affirmed the trial court’s decision dismissing the employee’s claim under the...

Apr 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia

Most employers are generally aware that federal and state laws protect employees from adverse employment actions because of pregnancy, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Family and Medical Leave Act...

Apr 01, 2024 · Employment Law Letter · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin

The latest iteration of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) independent contractor regulation was scheduled to become effective on March 11, 2024, ending this phase of one of the longest, most convoluted regulatory conflicts...

Mar 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider

During the Biden administration, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued a series of decisions that remade the field of labor law for all employers, regardless of union status. In a group of precedent...

Mar 01, 2024 · Federal Employment Law Insider