The EEOC has issued a guidance explaining that employees who act as “caregivers” for their family and friends may be protected by existing anti-discrimination laws. The EEOC does not define the phrase “caregiver” and, therefore, presumably intends it in a general dictionary sense. In other words, readers should note the EEOC is not using that […]
https://l2slegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/logo-orig.png00Bill C. Bergerhttps://l2slegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/logo-orig.pngBill C. Berger2022-04-11 14:30:382022-04-06 14:43:14EEOC issues guidance on federal anti-discrimination laws and employees who are caregivers outside work
The DOL issued Field Assistance Bulletin 2022-02 to provide updated guidance on the anti-retaliation laws it oversees, including the FMLA and FLSA. The guidance provides a series of hypotheticals that illustrate when an employer might or might not have committed prohibited retaliation. HR professionals and employment lawyers may be interested in reviewing the guidance to […]
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In a case titled, Coalition for Workforce Innovation v. Walsh, a Texas federal trial court has un-frozen the Trump-era DOL independent contractor rules, which were frozen by the incoming Biden Administration. As noted in a prior post on this blog, the Trump-era rules were seen as especially important for gig-economy companies. As the court’s order […]
Effective 5/1/2022, the DHS will end its temporary pandemic-era program that allows employers to accept expired List B documents (such as drivers licenses). During the pandemic, DHS recognized that many issuers of the List B documents (such as state motor vehicle departments ) were being overwhelmed by employee absences related to COVID-19. As a result, […]
https://l2slegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/logo-orig.png00Bill C. Bergerhttps://l2slegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/logo-orig.pngBill C. Berger2022-04-06 10:59:242022-04-06 10:59:24Pandemic-era I-9 List B expansion ending 5-1-2022
Today’s Wall Street Journal ran an interesting article that highlights the growing challenge employers face trying to hire drug-free in light of a 2-decade high surge in positive drug test results in 2021. Of the more than six million general workforce urine tests that Quest Diagnostics Inc., one of the country’s largest drug-testing laboratories, screened for marijuana last […]
https://l2slegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/logo-orig.png00Bill C. Bergerhttps://l2slegal.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/logo-orig.pngBill C. Berger2022-03-30 12:10:392022-03-30 12:10:39Wall Street Journal article highlights growing positive drug tests as a challenge for employers