The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently announced an update to its National Emphasis Program on preventing trenching and excavation collapses.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s litigation program brought 66 lawsuits alleging workplace harassment (41 alleging sexual harassment) in FY 2018, a more than 50% increase over the prior year.
The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently issued its first estimate of how many U.S. workers participate in electronically mediated (online platform) work.
The past month was full of minimum wage, tip, and overtime activity: amendments; annual rate adjustments; ballot measure battles; legal challenges; and new bills. It was a September to remember.
Election Day is coming up in a few weeks, and I’ve been getting questions from our managers in various branches about voting-related leave for employees.
The Colorado Court of Appeals recently held that clauses requiring arbitration of all claims “arising under” an agreement are broad and that such language is not intended to limit the scope of arbitrable claims.
Many foreign consulates and embassies that employ individuals in the U.S. erroneously assume they are immune from employment claims brought by their employees under U.S federal, state or local laws.
On September 21, 2018, the Pennsylvania Independent Regulatory Review Commission responded to a proposal to update the Executive, Administrative and Professional overtime exemptions to the state's minimum wage law.
