The nation’s #MeToo movement has spurred enormous positive change, including employers revisiting their anti-harassment policies and reporting procedures. And with the help of today’s technology, employers can now adopt a phone app that allows employees to report workplace harassment from the convenience and privacy of their phone ...
A little-known provision in the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act should be of great interest to employers. In response to the #MeToo movement and the recent surge of sexual misconduct allegations, Congress included a provision in the Act that precludes employers from deducting (1) settlements or payments relating to sexual harassment ...
As many employers have begun thinking about their summer hiring needs, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) has announced that going forward, it will apply the “primary beneficiary” test to determine whether interns working for “for-profit” employers are employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act ...
By Sharon Gold
The end of 2017 saw a barrage of sexual harassment allegations in the news and, subsequently, the termination of multiple high profile men in the entertainment and corporate industries. TIME magazine named the “Silence Breakers” as its “Person of the Year” for exposing the harassment that pervades the entertainment ...
Julie R. Pugh & Lee P. Geiger
I am thrilled to be a guest blogger for our esteemed Employee Benefits group! As a Labor and Employment attorney, I work with our Benefits team on a variety of issues, including leave of absence management. Usually, a tax provision would not excite me in the least. However, a tax code that allows for a business credit for ...
By Mitzi Wyrick
In Boeing Co., 365 NLRB No. 154, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) overturned the standard established in Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia, 343 NLRB No. 646 (2004) for weighing the legality of employee handbook rules and workplace policies. In Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia, the NLRB created confusion ...
In PCC Structurals, Inc., 365 NLRB No. 160, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) clarified the correct standard for determining whether a proposed bargaining unit constitutes an appropriate unit for bargaining when the employer contends that the smallest appropriate unit must include additional employees. The ...
In Raytheon Network Centric Systems, 365 NLRB No. 161, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) issued a ruling affecting bargaining obligations that are required before implementing a unilateral “change” in employment matters. Until 2016, when the NLRB decided E.I. du Pont de Nemours, 364 NLRB No. 113, the NLRB ...