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Employment Law

House bill introduced to clarify joint-employer relationships

08/01/2017
The contentious issue of joint employment—in which two or more entities may be considered equally liable for employment law and labor law violations—will gain some clarity if bipartisan legislation introduced in the House of Representatives July 27 is enacted.

Court: ACA complaint can trigger retaliation claim

08/01/2017
Love it or hate it, the Affordable Care Act remains the law of the land. That means, after months of futile legislating on Capitol Hill, important health insurance decisions will be made by courts, not Congress.

Snapshot: Disabled employees earn less

08/01/2017
On average, earnings for disabled employees are more than 30% lower than employees without a disability.

DOJ says Title VII doesn’t cover LGBT bias

08/01/2017
On the same day President Trump tweeted that transgender individuals could no longer serve in the armed forces, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a friend-of-the-court brief arguing that federal law does not protect lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees from workplace discrimination.

Cutting out accommodation may be retaliation

07/27/2017
The EEOC has just filed a lawsuit alleging an employer retaliated against an employee for complaining about discrimination by rescinding an existing religious accommodation.

DOL formally starts process of revising OT rule

07/27/2017
With the July 26 release of what’s known as a request for information, the U.S. Department of Labor officially began a new effort to rewrite the rules that determine which exempt employees qualify for overtime pay when they work more than 40 hours in a workweek.

Trump administration signals HR-related rulemaking priorities

07/25/2017
The Trump administration issued its first semiannual regulatory agenda on July 20, listing hundreds of issues it would seek to address using the executive branch’s rulemaking authority.

CAIR sues UPS on behalf of Mendota Heights, Minn. Muslims

07/21/2017
Former workers at the UPS facility in Mendota Heights, Minn., are suing the shipping giant and the staffing agency that placed them there, claiming supervisors fired Muslim employees who took prayer breaks.

Employees can almost always wear union logos

07/21/2017
The National Labor Relations Act provides powerful support for employees who want to join a labor union. It generally permits employees to wear a union logo on their clothing at work. Punishing employees for doing so will often result in the filing of unfair labor practices charges.

New trial denied in porn harassment case

07/21/2017
A former employee who previously lost a sexual harassment lawsuit against her employer has now lost a bid for a new trial.