ATTENTION NYC EMPLOYERS: PRIVATE SECTOR VACCINE MANDATE ENDS NOVEMBER 1
As he received his own COVID-19 bivalent booster shot, Mayor Eric Adams recently announced that New York City’s vaccine requirement for private-sector employees who interact with the public in the workplace will no longer be mandatory as of November 1, 2022. Click HERE and HERE to review our December 2021 eAlerts announcing the implementation of NYC’s […]
ATTENTION EMPLOYERS: COMPANIES WITH EMPLOYEES IN CALIFORNIA ARE SUBJECT TO NEW PAY TRANSPARENCY RULES AND FACE EXPANDED PAY DATA REPORTING REQUIREMENTS
Fueled by efforts to address gender and racial wage gaps, the California legislature has acted on a number of occasions since 2017 to shine the light on pay disparity by enacting wage disclosure obligations. Thirteen other jurisdictions across the country likewise have in effect or have recently enacted some form of compensation disclosure requirement, commonly referred […]
ATTENTION NEW JERSEY EMPLOYERS: COMMISSION ISSUES ADDITIONAL CANNABIS GUIDANCE BUT LEAVE EMPLOYERS HANGING ON A “WIRE”
On September 9, 2022, the NJ Cannabis Regulatory Commission (“NJ-CRC”) finally issued its guidance on “Workplace Impairment” (the “Guidance”). The full text of the Guidance can be found HERE. The Guidance has been highly anticipated by employers since the February 2021 passage of the Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance and Marketplace Modernization Act (“CREAMMA”), which legalized […]
ATTENTION NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY EMPLOYERS: JERSEY CITY EXPANDS OBLIGATIONS OF PAY TRANSPARENCY IN JOB POSTINGS AND NEW YORK STATE IS POISED TO BE NEXT
*UPDATE on December 21, 2022 – New York Governor Hochul signed S9427A/A10477 establishing a statewide pay transparency law. The new requirements will go into effect in September 2023. As we have alerted readers in prior eAlerts, a national trend has emerged to require employers to publicly disclose salary information whenever they post a job or […]
EMPLOYERS BEWARE: NEW JERSEY SUPREME COURT ISSUES A SIGNIFICANT RULING HOLDING THAT EMPLOYEES WERE MISCLASSIFIED AS INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS
In a decision that should give all employers pause about how they are classifying workers, the New Jersey Supreme Court recently ruled that certain workers hired by a residential drywall installation business on a per-job basis should have been employees rather than independent contractors. In East Bay Drywall, LLC v. Dept. of Labor and Workforce […]
ATTENTION NYC EMPLOYERS: 2023 WILL BRING NEW RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Update: On April 7, 2023, the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued its Final Rule clarifying employer’s obligations under Local Law 144 and announced that it was delaying enforcement of the new law until July 5, 2023. The full text of the Final Rule is available HERE. In response to concerns about inherent biases […]
ATTENTION EMPLOYERS: THE DOJ AND EEOC PROVIDE NEW GUIDANCE ON THE USE OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IN EMPLOYMENT DECISION MAKING
In May, both the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) released new guidance concerning employers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) – that is, the use of computer software or applications to complete a task commonly done by humans. Both agencies cautioned employers who utilize AI programs or similar software algorithms […]
ATTENTION EMPLOYERS: DEPARTMENT OF LABOR PUBLISHES UPDATED GUIDANCE ON JOB-PROTECTED LEAVES FOR MENTAL HEALTH
With a nod to the fact that May was National Mental Health Awareness month, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued two new publications on May 25, 2022, providing guidance for employers when workers seek leave for serious mental health conditions. Fact Sheet #280 “Mental Health Conditions and the FMLA” and FAQs […]
ATTENTION CALIFORNIA EMPLOYERS: CAL/OSHA UPDATES ITS EMERGENCY STANDARDS ONE MORE TIME
For the third time since originally issuing its Emergency Temporary Standards (“ETS”) on November 30, 2020, the Standards Board of California’s Division of Occupational Safety and Health (“Cal/OSHA”) has announced the re-adoption of the ETS with substantive amendments. [See our June 21, 2021, and December 21, 2021 eAlerts for further detail on the previous re-adoptions.] The […]
ATTENTION NEW YORK EMPLOYERS: NEW YORK CITY PAY TRANSPARENCY LAW TO BE DELAYED TO NOVEMBER 1, 2022
Update: Intro. 134 amending the pay transparency law was signed by Mayor Adams on May 12, 2022. On April 28, 2022, the New York City Council approved an amendment delaying its new legislation requiring employers to publicly disclose salary ranges in job postings until November 1, 2022. {Click HERE for our February 9, 2022 eAlert announcing […]