The Supreme Court of Kentucky has rejected a challenge to Kentucky’s right-to-work law, which prohibits companies from requiring workers to pay union dues as a condition for holding a job.
The relevant provision, codified in KRS 336.130, states:
Notwithstanding subsection (1) of this section or any provision of the ...
Now that the election is behind us, all of your employees have stopped discussing political issues and there is peace and harmony in the universe, right? Ha! If only that were true. With the House switching from one party to another, political discord is likely to ramp up. Is your workplace at risk of becoming a tinderbox as employees debate and ...
On October 11, 2018, President Trump signed into law the Orrin G. Hatch – Bob Goodlatte Music Modernization Act (“Act”), which had unanimously passed both the House of Representatives and the Senate. The Act has been praised by often-times divergent groups in the music industry – e.g. songwriters, publishers ...
Special thanks to Christina Rogers for writing this week’s blog.
During election season, it’s easy to get caught up in the drama and the television ad game show “Who is More Corrupt?” You might even be so caught up that you forget (or weren’t even aware of) the impact Election Day may have on your workforce. Now more than ever we seem to ...
Special thanks to co-author, Jack Greiner.
It’s not out of the ordinary to see work colleagues dressed up in Halloween costumes this time of year. Honestly, it wouldn’t be Halloween without the Sanderson Sisters, Addams Family or Michael Myers! Employers often push aside dress codes or appearance policies this week and allow employees to ...
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) recently proposed a new rule to scale back a controversial Board decision from 2015 regarding the appropriate test for whether a franchisor and franchisees are “joint employers” under the National Labor Relations Act. This would directly roll back the NLRB decision in ...
Earlier this year we reported on the United States Supreme Court decision that upheld employers’ use of class action waivers and arbitration provisions in employment agreements under federal law. Late last month, however, the Kentucky Supreme Court held that Kentucky law bars employers from saddling employees with arbitration agreements ...
Special thanks to Christina Rogers for writing this week’s blog.
This year the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency (ICE) carried out two of its largest workplace raids in nearly a decade. No, these raids were not in California, New York, Florida, or any of the other typical states that come to mind. These raids took place in OH-IO.
Employers in Ohio are entitled to a drug free workplace and the enforcement of a zero-tolerance policy. That does not make it easy, however, to control. To date, there is not a real-time test to indicate whether a person is “high” in the present tense, only to know if they have used in the past. And not all testing is equal. What will employers will ...