The Connecticut House yesterday passed HB 5003, a sweeping workforce and working-conditions bill, and transmitted it to the Senate where it awaits a vote; employers should begin planning for compliance now given the breadth of changes and staggered effective dates.
In short, the bill tightens and expands wage range transparency obligations, requires new job
Do you live in a bubble?
That question has taken on new meaning in today’s environment, but it’s something I think about often when it comes to the practice of law. After all, our firm mainly represents employers or business owners or entrepreneurs when it comes to employment law matters.
If there’s a claim against
Tomorrow, the EEOC is expected to publish its final regulations for the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act. They were previewed in a press release earlier this week.
Since nearly every lawfirm is producing their own summary of what are, in my view, fairly straightforward implementation regulations, this post will take a different tact — namely how
This month, I published a new article for Practicing Law Institute Chronicle entitled Neurodiversity in the Workplace.
The article builds off a post I did last November by taking a look at some of the cases that have tackled the subject.
For those unfamiliar with the topic, I summarized it in the article as
Over the weekend, I was joking with a friend that we’ve seen more changes in employment law in the last 18 months than the last 18 years.
That’s an exaggeration of course. But it certainly does feel like there’s been a lot of changes. Sometimes it’s hard to catch up. So rather than a long
Judging from the calls I’ve fielded over the last few weeks, nearly every employer is thinking about the impact mass vaccinations are having on their workforce.
The questions (and answers), however, are basically the same:
Over the weekend, I became one of an ever-growing club: The Fully Vaccinated. (A lucky extra dose at a pharmacy was my early miracle.)
By early May, there will many millions more.
What then?
I posted on Twitter over the weekend that being fully vaccinated right now is a strange world that is causing the
Last month, our webinar on vaccines was really very popular. Given the breadth of the topic, we didn’t get a chance to answer all the questions that people had. In addition, since that initial program, Connecticut has modified its vaccination eligibility rules meaning employers that thought that they would have some time to think
So like nearly all of America, my family saw Avengers: Endgame this weekend.
(Minor Spoiler Ahead!)
Of course, we laughed. We cried. And it was definitely better than Cats.
All the while thinking of the employment law issues that are just under the surface.
You can take the employment lawyer out of the office, but
So “bear” with me on this one.
Today is Yogi Berra’s 90th birthday. The Yankee great is famous for not only his play as a baseball player but also for his sayings, such as “Half the lies they tell about me aren’t true.”
He was so popular he was said to inspire the name of