Federal and state laws tend to dominate compliance discussions, but local ordinances carry serious financial consequences, too. Case in point: The City of Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards (OLS) recently announced its second-largest enforcement action ever – a...
New Go1 research reveals where compliance confidence and real-world readiness diverge.
Among other claims, the plaintiff alleged she was excluded from a company-organized diversity, equity and inclusion webinar described as “not for [W]hite folks.”
Aspects of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act that were once seen as “settled” continue to be challenged, an attorney told HR Dive.
The Washington Post has been ordered to reinstate a former employee who was fired for posts she made online, bringing to us another example of how policing employee activity outside of work can often backfire. The private arbitrator, Sarah Miller Espinosa, found that...
New Jersey has reached an employee misclassification settlement with STG Logistics over allegations that the company and its predecessor misclassified hundreds of truck drivers as independent contractors. New Owner Assumed Liability In 2019, the New Jersey Department...
The Seventh Circuit held that a Wisconsin employer properly included certain pay differentials and incentive premiums in employees’ regular rate of pay before calculating the overtime premium under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state law. It also...
Employers and HR professionals have no shortage of forms and paperwork, but when it comes to Form I-9 compliance, even small mistakes or errors can result in violations and hefty fines. With ICE’s recent updates to what qualifies as substantive violation, the chance...
HR professionals take heed: Derogatory name-calling at work, even from customers, can embroil employers in lawsuits.
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