After the passage of Florida Statute 381.00317, employers with employees in Florida were left with new rules relating to COVID-19 vaccination policies, in many instances contrary to the signaled direction of federal government rules and guidance.
A female applicant applies for a job that was widely advertised. During her interview she insists on being paid $100,000. The employer agrees, although it employs a male doing substantially similar work for $125,000. Does this violate the EPA?
On December 3, 2021, the Fourth Circuit rejected the notion that under the federal Equal Pay Act, equality should be assessed based on total compensation, holding instead that equality must be satisfied regarding each component of compensation.
On Monday, December 6, 2021, New York City announced a first-in-the-nation vaccine mandate for private-sector employers, which must now require vaccinations for all employees who work in person in the city.
On November 30, 2021, Ontario announced that it had passed Bill 27, Working for Workers Act, 2021 (Act). The Act received Royal Assent on December 2, 2021, and came into force on that day.
On November 29 and 30, 2021, two separate federal district courts issued injunctions blocking enforcement of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services interim final rule requiring healthcare worker vaccinations.
A federal court has issued an order granting a preliminary injunction to block the enforcement of the vaccine mandate for federal contractors and subcontractors in all covered contracts in Kentucky, Ohio, and Tennessee.
Social and Economic Committees in French workplaces must be informed and consulted in the event of a “restructuring and downsizing.” What is their scope of intervention?
