The Human Rights Tribunal of Ontario recently rendered its decision on remedy in a case in which it found the employer’s practice of requiring job applications to be permanently eligible to work in Canada as discriminatory.
The DOL recently issued two opinion letters clarifying whether a service member participating in the DoD’s Skill Bridge program is an employee, and whether employers that participate are considered federal contractors.
Already a tough place for employers, New Jersey may be about to get even tougher. State legislators now want to make it even more difficult to satisfy the ABC test for independent contractor classification, with a new bill, SB 4204.
The Nevada Labor Commissioner issued two advisory opinions concerning Senate Bill (SB) 312, which, effective January 1, 2020, requires private employers with 50 or more employees in Nevada to provide paid leave that employees can use for any reason.
On November 6, 2019, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) announced cost-of-living adjustments affecting dollar limitations for pension plans and other retirement-related items for the 2020 tax year.
Government contractors received a treat for Halloween, as President Trump issued an Executive Order designed to ease the burden on successor contractors to federal service contracts and “to promote economy and efficiency in Federal Government procurement.
Since October 24, 2019, blind and vision-impaired individuals have filed more than 90 lawsuits claiming that Title III of the ADA and its state and local equivalents require retailers and restaurants that offer gift cards to offer those cards in Braille.
On October 8, 2019, the Governor of Puerto Rico signed a law that restricts an employer’s use of an employee’s or job applicant’s credit history or report.
The Westchester County Human Rights Commission has published a host of information to help employers comply with the Westchester County Safe Time Leave Law, which took effect October 30, 2019.
On October 15, 2019, the Bernalillo County, New Mexico Commissioners voted to amend their mandatory paid time off (PTO) ordinance, enacted only two months earlier.
