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Dream on — lawsuit by Aerosmith drummer highlights the legal risk of “fitness for duty” exams

by Jon Hyman

Jan 24, 2020

Joey Kramer, Aerosmith’s founding and longtime drummer, is suing his band mates after they blocked him from joining them at upcoming high-profile events, including this weekend’s honor as the 2020 MusiCares Person of the Year and its Lifetime Achievement...

Here are Ten Problems with Your FMLA Policy and Suggestions on How You Fix Them

by Jeff Nowak

Jan 23, 2020

Jingle Bells is now a faint memory. Three weeks into 2020, we’ve made and already broken our New Year’s resolutions. Is it a new decade, or is it not? Who knows and who cares, right? Whether or not you’ve broken that New Year’s resolution, the turn of the calendar is...

CDC Confirms First Case of Wuhan Coronavirus in the United States: What Employers Need to Know

by Katherine Dudley Helms & Michael Oliver Eckard

Jan 22, 2020

Employers with employees traveling to and from China may want to take note of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) announcement on January 21, 2020, that the United States had confirmed its first case of a new strain of the coronavirus that appeared...

Drug testing in the ’20s: What employers should and shouldn’t do

by Robin Shea

Jan 21, 2020

Welcome to the future. With the dramatic changes in acceptance of medical and even recreational marijuana, employers need to take a fresh look at the way they maintain drug-free workplaces. Here are some tips for surviving this time of transition. First, marijuana is...

The NLRB’s Revised Representation Case Procedures, Part I: The New Pre-Election Procedures

Jan 17, 2020

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), led by members appointed by President Barack Obama and with a pro-labor agenda, implemented many procedural changes during the last decade. One of the more significant and wide-sweeping changes of the Obama Board occurred on...

Frivolous litigation has a price … sometimes a big price

by Jon Hyman

Jan 16, 2020

In 2005, Monika Starke filed a charge of discrimination with the EEOC alleging that her employer, CRST Van Expedited, Inc., subjected her to sexual harassment. The EEOC expanded that initial charge into a federal-court lawsuit over whether CRST engaged in sexual...

DOL Issues Final Rule on Joint-Employer Status under Fair Labor Standards Act

by Jim Paretti, Tammy McCutchen, Maury Baskin & Michael Lotito

Jan 15, 2020

On January 13, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited final rule regarding joint-employer status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The final rule is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register on January 16, 2020, and will...

New Year’s resolutions for employers

by Robin Shea

Jan 14, 2020

“Let’s turn over — a new leaf.” “And, baby, let’s make promises — that we can keep. We’ll call it a New Year’s resolution…” Now that the New Year’s celebrations are over, it’s time to start...

Latest Set of DOL Opinion Letters Clarify FLSA Salary Basis and Overtime Calculations, FMLA Eligibility Determinations for Public Agencies

by Amanda Inskeep, Tammy McCutchen & Jeff Nowak

Jan 13, 2020

Getting the new year off to a quick start, the United States Department of Labor issued three Opinion Letters on January 7, 2020. These letters concern the salary basis test and overtime calculations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), and government agency...

Second-guessing the advice columns: The morning after the workplace party

by Robin Shea

Jan 10, 2020

Did I do that? Happy new year, everybody! Greg Giangrande of the New York Post’s @Work column answered a letter this week from a guy whose behavior at his workplace holiday party was “a blur.” That can’t be good. Ever since the party, his...

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Dream on — lawsuit by Aerosmith drummer highlights the legal risk of “fitness for duty” exams

Here are Ten Problems with Your FMLA Policy and Suggestions on How You Fix Them

CDC Confirms First Case of Wuhan Coronavirus in the United States: What Employers Need to Know

Drug testing in the ’20s: What employers should and shouldn’t do

The NLRB’s Revised Representation Case Procedures, Part I: The New Pre-Election Procedures

Frivolous litigation has a price … sometimes a big price

DOL Issues Final Rule on Joint-Employer Status under Fair Labor Standards Act

New Year’s resolutions for employers

Latest Set of DOL Opinion Letters Clarify FLSA Salary Basis and Overtime Calculations, FMLA Eligibility Determinations for Public Agencies

Second-guessing the advice columns: The morning after the workplace party

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