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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently issued two opinion letters addressing how the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) applies to employee travel time in modern work arrangements. Together, the letters provide helpful guidance for employers managing hybrid office employees, field service employees, and other nonexempt workers who perform some […]
AI strategies are often built around technology: which tools to buy, where to deploy them and how quickly they can scale. What determines whether those strategies succeed is often less technical. West Monroe’s recent report, Building the AI-Native Enterprise, found that while 91% of leaders say their organizations are aligned on AI strategy, only 57% […]
As a recent case demonstrates, favoring employees based on their religion can be as troublesome as penalizing employees for their religious beliefs. Religion at the Hospital Stephanie Osei was employed as a nurse at Brookside Hospital Medical Center for 22 years. For the last three years, she worked in the hospital’s Surgical Intensive Care Unit […]
I do not typically write in first person. But this article is all about trying and Trying, so for purposes of this article, I am trying something new. And I am trying to convince you to watch Trying, a delightful British TV show that just wrapped up its fifth season (and I’m hoping for a […]
With comments now submitted, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has cleared the last procedural hurdle to promulgating a final rule eliminating the requirement that employers disclose demographic data through EEO-1 reports. For more than sixty years, private employers with more than 100 employees and federal contractors with more than 50 employees have been required […]
Do you know what spoliation means? One Massachusetts employer just learned the hard way. Employers involved in litigation or reasonably anticipated litigation have a legal obligation to preserve potentially relevant evidence until the matter is resolved. If an employer fails to do so, that failure is called spoliation. Courts can impose serious sanctions for spoliation, […]
Success in the workforce starts with your leaders, but do they know who they are? If those taking charge don’t have clarity and a focused direction, their talent will lag behind. When we sat down with Erika Portis, Director of Performance for Fanatics Betting & Gaming and upcoming SPARK Talent speaker, we learned that the best leaders […]
The nation’s 250th birthday provides the opportunity to examine the state of our national affairs and how it has changed in the last decade. Many students of government will point to the numerous and profound changes wrought by executive fiat as the most significant recent changes to our government, and they may be right. Even […]
On August 12, a federal district court dismissed the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) subpoena enforcement action against Nike at the EEOC’s request. The EEOC said Nike had provided it with the information it sought between March and August. The lawsuit was filed in the Eastern District of Missouri in February after the original charge […]
An unusual, bipartisan coalition of House members voted to pass the Faster Labor Contracts Act (FLCA), a law that would impose fast-track bargaining schedules for initial contracts and could end in having government arbitrators impose two-year contracts on the parties. What the FLCA Does The FLCA would change the current open-ended bargaining and replace it […]