A recent article about a study on the effectiveness of sexual harassment training caught my eye. The article (link here) explains: “Some researchers believe trainings have no positive effects, tend to be more about legal cover than meaningful prevention or…
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Is Your Sexual Harassment Training Making Things Worse?
Tagged with: bullying, human resources, presentations, sexual harassment, workplace violence
Posted in Discrimination, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Discrimination, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Brace Yourselves: Major Overtime Regulations Coming Soon
The Department of Labor has been promising an overhaul of the white collar exemption regulations for over a year. The regulations were originally planned to be released in the Fall of 2014, but were pushed back to February 2015. We…
Tagged with: Department of Labor, DOL, exempt, human resources, non-exempt, overtime, salary exemption
Posted in Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
New FMLA Regulations Will Affect Texas Employers
Texas does not recognize same sex marriage, so the natural thought would be to deny a request for an employee to take FMLA leave to care for his or her same sex “spouse” from a marriage in another state. According…
Tagged with: Department of Labor, DOL, human resources
Posted in Discrimination, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Discrimination, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
EEOC Loses Another Background Check Case
The EEOC has taken a lot of heat on its controversial stance of aggressively litigating adverse impact cases involving background checks. In April, 2012, the EEOC issued a new enforcement guidance seeking to curtail the uses of criminal background checks…
Department of Labor Targeting Oil and Gas Contractors
On December 9, 2014, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced that it had achieved $4.5 million dollars in settlements from private employers as a result of a two year investigation into contractors working in the Marcellus Shale region of…
Tagged with: Department of Labor, DOL, exempt, off-the-clock, overtime, salary exemption
Posted in Discrimination, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Discrimination, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
President Obama Keeps Adding New Labor Regulations for Federal Contractors
It has been a busy year for executive orders, especially if you are a federal contractor. Although the President cannot unilaterally implement new employment laws affecting private employers, there has been no shortage of new labor requirements for those doing…
Supreme Court Says Obama Overstepped Authority with Three NLRB Recess Appointments
Today, the Supreme Court issued a long-awaited decision addressing the question of whether three recess appointees to the NLRB passed Constitutional muster. These three NLRB members were appointed by President Obama during a three-day recess in the middle of a…
USCIS Provides Guidance on I-9 Completion for Remote Hires
By Nelsy C. Gomez – With the existing stringent rules regarding the proper and timely completion of the I-9 form, many employers still find themselves wrestling with the issue of what to do with employees who are hired and work…
Tagged with: I-9, immigration, United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, USCIS
Posted in Federal Government, Immigration, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Federal Government, Immigration, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
IRS Says It Will Penalize Employers Dumping Employees into Obamacare
Before the ink on the Affordable Care Act was dry, prudent employers were analyzing the law to identify ways to save money and avoid many of the punitive aspects of the law. One question which has repeatedly been asked of…
Tagged with: ACA, Healthcare, IRS, Obamacare
Posted in Federal Government, Healthcare Reform, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Federal Government, Healthcare Reform, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
President Obama Targets Equal Pay
On April 8, President Obama issued two executive orders which will impact employers who do business with the federal government. First, the President made it unlawful for contractors to retaliate against employees who discuss their pay. Second, the President ordered the…
Tagged with: Department of Labor, DOL, NLRB
Posted in Discrimination, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Discrimination, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
