OSHA issues guidelines to ensure restroom access for transgender workers
Discrimination & Harassment
OSHA issues guidelines to ensure restroom access for transgender workers

There's been an increased focus on providing special benefits to transgender individuals in the workplace. Consistent with that trend, on June 1, the Occupational Safety…

California Employer LAWlert: New Sick Leave Law Will Require This Posting to be Displayed Where Employees Can Easily Read It
California
California Employer LAWlert: New Sick Leave Law Will Require This Posting to be Displayed Where Employees Can Easily Read It

Effective July 1, 2015, the Healthy Workplaces/Healthy Families Act of 2014 or the CA Paid Sick Leave Law will entitle most employees in California to…

OR LAWlert: Oregon Employers Required to Provide Bereavement Leave
Employee Benefits
OR LAWlert: Oregon Employers Required to Provide Bereavement Leave

by Calvin Keith Oregon will become the first state in the nation to require employers to provide bereavement leave when House Bill 2950 takes effect…

URGENT CA: California Employer Arbitration Agreements May Require Waiver of a Berman Hearing
Employment Law & HR Topics
URGENT CA: California Employer Arbitration Agreements May Require Waiver of a Berman Hearing

In Sonic-Calabasas A, Inc. v. Moreno (2011) 51 Cal.4th 659 (Sonic I), a California Court of Appeals ruled that it is contrary to public policy…

CA UPDATE: A Dress Code Can Result In Major Legal Claims
Discrimination & Harassment
CA UPDATE: A Dress Code Can Result In Major Legal Claims

WASHINGTON (Sept 2013) — a federal judge in California ruled last   week that clothing retailer Abercrombie & Fitch Co. discriminated against a Muslim employee on religious grounds,…

Racial Bias Claim Results In One of The Largest Settlements of Its Kind
Discrimination & Harassment
Racial Bias Claim Results In One of The Largest Settlements of Its Kind

REUTERS (By Amanda Becker 8-28-13) - Merrill Lynch has agreed to pay $160 million to settle a class-action race discrimination lawsuit brought by a longtime…

Employer Email Policies – Be clear and consistent
Employment Law & HR Topics
Employer Email Policies – Be clear and consistent

Harvard University – Due to a recent student cheating scandal that rocked the Harvard School of Government, as part of an investigation into the matter…

Employers and Insurance Brokers Beware - Falsifying workers compensation information can land both in prison
Employment Law & HR Topics
Employers and Insurance Brokers Beware - Falsifying workers compensation information can land both in prison

On April 5, 2013, a Tulare County criminal grand jury indicted eight local businessmen on suspicion of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud and payroll tax…

PUT THE “HUMAN” BACK IN HUMAN RESOURCES: Watch your profitability & productivity soar!
Employment Law & HR Topics
PUT THE “HUMAN” BACK IN HUMAN RESOURCES: Watch your profitability & productivity soar!

I hear it from employers all the time, “What a waste of time. I’m not their babysitter. I pay them a salary what more do…