When sponsoring foreign national employees for employment-based “immigrant visas” or “green cards” (which grant lawful permanent residence in the US), … Read more
Uber Drivers Lose Class Action Effort as Court Upholds Arbitration Requirement
It was just a matter of time. After the Supreme Court cleared the way for businesses to use class waivers with their employees and contractors with … Read more
NLRB Issues Plan to Overhaul Joint Employer Rules
In a move that has been anticipated for several months, the National Relations Labor Board yesterday published a proposed rule that would fundamentally … Read more
HR Worried A Dyslexic Would Fail, So She Was Fired
Do you know that proverb “no good deed goes unpunished”? This isn’t that situation. “There was no point in continuing the training.” Last week, the EEOC … Read more
A Look at the #MeToo Movement’s Impact In the US, Brazil and the UK
Since the #MeToo movement began in October 2017, hardly a week goes by without the hashtag making headlines. From Miss America pageants to proposed … Read more
California Employers Must Pay For Expected Off-the-Clock Time
California employers who regularly have their hourly workers do brief, after-hours tasks must pay them for the time, the state’s Supreme Court said … Read more
Appeals Court Says #MeToo Shows Employee Delay In Sex Harassment May Be Reasonable
In a July 3, 2018 opinion based in part on the revelations of the #MeToo era, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit held that an employee’s … Read more
DOL Signals Return to Historical Test to Decide Worker Classification
The Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) on July 13 titled “Determining Whether Nurse or … Read more
A Look at How Brett Kavanaugh Could Shape Employment Law
Respect to the employment law bloggers, reporters, and others who have been trying to read the tea leaves to predict what Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s record as … Read more
In the Rush to Big Data, Don’t Ignore the Legal Risks
Dear Littler: We are revamping our online job application. I asked our HR director if we should eliminate the question asking about an applicant’s hobbies. … Read more