News & Analysis

California’s governor may soon sign into law a one-year delay of the California Consumer Privacy Act’s (CCPA) full application to human resources data.

This podcast covers how the lens through which jurors are evaluating evidence has changed in this COVID era, and what trial attorneys should consider when developing trial themes, during, and after, COVID.

While no one knows what the outcome of the presidential election will be, if Vice President Biden is elected, hospitality employers should expect to see the following labor and employment issues front and center.

A new DOL opinion letter provides guidance on which employers “have a retail concept” for purposes of the commissioned employee FLSA exemption.

On August 31, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued an opinion letter finding that employers of delivery drivers need not reimburse mileage at the IRS “standard” reimbursement rate.

In this podcast, members of Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute bring listeners up to date with what’s new with AB 5.

As the world focused its attention on the COVID-19 pandemic, other legal issues took a back seat. In California, however, the topic of whether a worker should be classified as an independent contractor or an employee has come to the fore.

With many employees having worked from home for the few past months, employers are now reassessing the long-term feasibility of remote working.

It appears that employers in the Golden State will be required, starting next year, to collect and submit worker compensation data to the state.

As the summer draws to an end, the end of the UK’s Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme (a.k.a. the “furlough scheme”) is also in sight.