Maine recently amended its final wages statute to require that “[a]ll unused paid vacation accrued pursuant to the employer's vacation policy on and after January 1, 2023 must be paid to the employee on cessation of employment.”
California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board met on April 21, 2022, and formally approved the third readoption of its COVID-19 Emergency Temporary Standard by a 6-1 vote.
An arbitrator recently decided that the mandatory vaccination policy of BC Hydro was reasonably necessary to justify the significant intrusion on its employees’ bodily integrity and medical privacy - but the policy's discipline aspect was unreasonable.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) is a federal law that governs employment-related background checks. The FCRA is atypical in that FCRA claims can proceed in either federal or state court.
On April 9, 2022, the Maryland legislature voted to override Governor Lawrence J. Hogan’s veto of the Time to Care Act of 2022 (SB 275/HB8), passing it by a 30-16 vote in the Senate and by a 94-44 vote in the House.
The California Privacy Rights Act, effective January 1, 2023, will impose specific notice obligations on employers. This article focuses on one such requirement: a privacy policy that must be posted online or on the employer’s internet website.
Bill 10, the Labour Relations Code Amendment Act, 2022, introduced on April 6, 2022, would make significant amendments to British Columbia’s Labour Relations Code.
