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
Expanding on her previous post on the subject, on May 1, 2019, Law360 published the following expert analysis authored by Squire Patton Boggs labor and employment attorney Melissa Legault. After 11 private conferences during which the U.S. Supreme Court justices debated whether to hear the cases, the Supreme Court granted certiorari[1] in three cases involving the extent of protection — if … Continue Reading
As we discussed in our previous posts – see here and here – in April 2018, New York passed legislation intended to combat workplace sexual harassment. Under this new law, employers are required to implement and distribute to employees a written policy prohibiting sexual harassment by October 9, 2018. To assist employers in complying, in … Continue Reading
