Have your employees recently been trained on sexual harassment? Is your sexual harassment policy conspicuously posted? Does your policy have a reasonable complaint mechanism? If the answer is “no” to any of these questions, then you may be depriving your company of a defense to certain sexual harassment claims.
When an ...
Many employers that sponsor an employee benefit plan opt to obtain fiduciary liability insurance in addition to a fidelity bond, though ERISA only requires the latter. Not to be confused with the fidelity bond, which insures a plan against loss due to fraud or dishonesty by people who handle plan funds or other property ...
The Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government’s minimum wage ordinance went into effect earlier this month, increasing the minimum wage requirements for all employers within Lexington-Fayette County. As of July 1, 2016, the minimum wage for Lexington is $8.20 per hour. On the same date, Louisville’s minimum wage hit ...
Matt Lubozynski, member of Wyatt's Intellectual Property Protection & Litigation Service Team, wrote an article that was recently published in the Memphis Daily News. The article, "Patent-holders Feel More Secure Thanks to Patent-Infringement Lawsuit Ruling," discusses how the Supreme Court's decision in Halo Electronics, Inc. v. Pulse ...
By now, I assume most employers and others who keep up with developments in labor and employment law are familiar with the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) controversial “persuader rule” that was set to take effect on July 1 of this year. For those who are not familiar with it, here is a summary of what all the fuss is about ...
Last week, the EEOC released a review of its efforts to combat systemic discrimination over the last decade. The review, which comes on the 10th anniversary of its 2006 Systemic Task Force Report, boasts that the EEOC “has made substantial progress in building a systemic program that is strategic, nationwide ...
The United States Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) “persuader rule,” which requires employers and their advisors (including employers’ attorneys) to disclose publicly any advice that directly or indirectly persuades employees regarding union organizing or collective bargaining activity, took effect on April ...
Sharon Gold, a Partner with Wyatt, Tarrant & Combs and leader of the Firm's Employment Practices Liability Insurance (EPLI) team, will be speaking at the Bluegrass Compensation Association meeting at the Lexington Herald-Leader on June 22, 2016. Ms. Gold will be providing an FLSA update concerning the Department of Labor's Final Rule that ...
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court rejected an appeal from 20 states seeking to block the MATS rule from taking effect while the EPA undertakes a second determination whether regulating power plant mercury emissions is appropriate and necessary. As previously discussed on this blog, the MATS rule was promulgated pursuant ...
On Monday, the United States Supreme Court, in a unanimous ruling, “eschew[ed] any rigid formula for awarding enhanced damages under § 284,” abandoned the prior “unduly rigid” Seagate test laid out by the Federal Circuit, and instead left the award of enhanced damages simply to the discretion of the district court. ...