The end of the year brings many reasons to celebrate, and the vast majority of employers intend to make merry by hosting a holiday party of some sort. Nonetheless, a holiday party can create unintended negative consequences.
Two recent EEOC lawsuits alleging disability discrimination underscore the importance of engaging in an interactive process with job applicants and employees and providing reasonable accommodations to those taking prescription drugs for medical conditions
On December 2, 2016, the U.S. Department of Transportation announced a final rule establishing a new “Commercial Driver’s License Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse.”
On a very limited legal basis, a federal district court has declined to enjoin OSHA from enforcing portions of its new recordkeeping rule related to potentially retaliatory post-accident drug testing and safety incentive programs.
U.S. High Court addressing the issue of whether the sovereign immunity of an Indian Tribe bars individual-damages actions against tribal employees for torts committed within the employees’ scope of employment.
On November 8, 2016, Arizona voters enacted the Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act, which provides for incremental increases to the minimum wage for Arizona workers beginning on January 1, 2017.
New bills passed in 2016 expand the scope of required sexual harassment training to an estimated additional 570,000 private-sector workers, the vast majority of whom will be rank-and-file, non-supervisory employees.
