On September 14, 2023, Maine Governor Janet Mills declared a state of emergency due to Hurricane Lee’s anticipated landfall on the Pine Tree state, triggering a costly hazard pay measure for nearly all employers in Portland.
A recent NLRB complaint has clarified that it is the NLRB General Counsel’s opinion that employee and customer non-solicitation agreements violate the NLRA.
On August 24, 2023, as part of its ongoing heat illness prevention rulemaking effort, the OSHA released various options for inclusion in a proposed rule to address heat injury and illness prevention in outdoor and indoor work settings.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit recently affirmed an employer’s duty to comply with the attestations made under the Labor Condition Application (LCA) to pay its foreign national employee during the period of authorized employment.
Proposed legislation would create a new “Fast Food Council” with limited authority to recommend employment regulations, set $20/hr minimum wage for workers in this industry, and allow the IWC to remain de-funded.
In two recent decisions the NLRB overruled precedent that had allowed unionized employers to lawfully change terms and condition of employment if the changes were consistent with past practice or an expired management rights clause.
Japan is one of the first non-Western countries to adopt a legal framework on business and human rights, which will likely influence other countries in the APAC region, as well as the overall Western focus of BHR developments.
The NLRB recently expanded the definition of what constitutes “protected concerted activity” under the NLRA to include employee advocacy on behalf of those who do not meet the Act’s specific definition of “employee.”
Our company is expanding and we are concerned about compliance with all of the various state leave laws. We understand that some states have laws requiring leave for school activities. What do we need to do to comply?
New amendments to Puerto Rico’s Act No. 54 of August 15, 1989, “Act for the Prevention and Intervention with Domestic Violence,” include “economic violence” as a form of domestic violence.
