State legislatures have been busy in 2021 passing new employment-related laws. Here we look at some of the highlights of new laws in Connecticut, Illinois, Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania, and Washington, D.C. Connecticut is the latest state to prohibit discrimination based upon traits historically associated with race, including hair texture, protective hairstyles such as wigs … Continue Reading
For citizens of Arizona, Montana, New Jersey, and South Dakota, 11/3 may become another 4/20, as on Election Day, voters in those states approved initiatives to joining 11 other US states that previously decriminalized recreational adult use of marijuana.[1] Employers in those states however may not be as enthusiastic, since approval of recreational marijuana use … Continue Reading
It’s been an active few weeks since our last State Law Round-Up in mid-April 2019, with a number of bills being signed into new laws and case developments impacting employers in many US states over the past few weeks. Colorado Failure to Pay Wages as Theft Effective January 1, 2020, an employer’s failure to pay … Continue Reading
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau issued a new FCRA “Summary of Rights” form, effective September 21, 2018. Employers that use consumer reporting agencies to conduct credit or background checks must let both job applicants and employees know their rights under the FCRA by providing this form along with the FCRA disclosure and authorization. Failure to … Continue Reading
On April 26, 2017, the Seventh Circuit Court denied Home Depot’s request to reconsider its reversal of the decision to remand back to the lower court the matter of Anicich v Home Depot USA Inc., et al. Home Depot Inc. will face a lawsuit claiming that the retailer’s negligence led to a supervisor’s murdering a … Continue Reading
If you have not heard about the “Ban the Box” movement, it is time to take notice. Ban the box refers to a check box present on many standard job applications, whereby an applicant is asked whether they have any prior criminal history. Plainly speaking, proponents of Ban the Box initiatives are seeking to eliminate … Continue Reading
