Georgia Restaurant Association’s Coastal Chapter Meeting, June 6, 2012, Savannah, GA – Presenter.

• EEOC Rescinds Harassment Guidance
• Partner Yash Dave Featured by Law360 Employment Authority: Full 5th Circ. PWFA Review May Tee Up High Court Fight
• ‘Tis the Season: Annual Party Pooper’s Guide to the Holidays
• Florida’s CHOICE Act Provides Employers Unprecedented Protections Under Noncompete and Garden Leave Agreements
• What the Trump Administration’s Focus on Immigration Enforcement Means for Employers
• Third Circuit Finds NLRB Exceeded its Authority in Issuing Order Against Starbucks
• ‘Tis the Season for Celebration and the Annual Party Pooper’s Guide to the Holidays
• Millions of Employees Retain Exempt Status as Federal Court Invalidates DOL’s Salary Threshold Increase for Overtime Exemptions
• NLRB Prohibits Employers’ Use of Captive Audience Meetings in the Fight Against Unionization
• NLRB General Counsel Expounds on the Illegality of Most Non-Compete Provisions and Declares Many “Stay-or-Pay” Provisions Illegal Under the NLRA
• A Win for Employers in the Restaurant Industry: Fifth Circuit Strikes Down DOL Tip Credit Rule
• FTC Rule Banning Non-Competes Ruled Unlawful
• Amendments to California’s Private Attorneys General Act
• The FTC’s New Rule Bans Majority of Non-Compete Agreements
• DOL Issues Final Rule Increasing Salary Thresholds for Overtime Exemptions
• EEOC Issues Final Rule Implementing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
• Partner Yash Dave Featured by Law360: Examples Seen As Crucial To Useful EEOC, NLRB Guidance
• Texas District Court Invalidates NLRB’s Joint Employer Rule
• Two New Laws Expand California’s Non-Compete Prohibition and Require Employers to Provide Notice to Current and Former Employees
• The DOL Publishes Final Rule Regarding Independent Contractor Classification Under the FLSA
• ‘Tis the Season: Annual Party Pooper’s Guide to the Holidays
• NLRB Final Joint Employer Rule Expands Joint Employment Under the NLRA
• DOL Issues Proposed Rulemaking Regarding Overtime Exemptions
• August Brings a Flurry of Activity from the National Labor Relations Board
• EEOC Proposes Regulations to Implement Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
• NLRB Revises Standard for Evaluating Employer Policies
• U.S. Supreme Court Holds Employers Can Sue for Strike Damages
• NLRB General Counsel Declares Most Non-Compete Provisions Illegal Under the NLRA
• Do Holidays Count Against FMLA Leave? Wage and Hour Division Clarifies Whether Holidays Count Against an Employee’s FMLA Leave Entitlement and Determination of the Amount of Leave Taken
• DOL Updates Minimum Wage Poster to Include PUMP Act Requirements for FLSA-Covered Employers
• Deadlines for Chicago and Illinois Employers
• NLRB Opens the Floodgates for Extraordinary Remedies Available for Egregious or Habitual Violations
• NLRB Ruling Limits Employers’ Ability to Discipline in Response to Abusive Conduct
• Michigan’s Governor Signs Legislation Repealing Right-To-Work Law
• NLRB Issues Guidance in Response to Inquiries Involving Non-Disparagement and Confidentiality Provisions in Severance Agreements
• U.S. Supreme Court Rules Supervisor Earning More Than $200,000 A Year Was Entitled To Overtime Compensation
• Court of Appeals Blocks California’s Ban On Employment Arbitration Agreements
• Employers Must Carefully Draft Severance Agreements After NLRB Deems Non-Disclosure and Non-Disparagement Provisions Violate The National Labor Relations Act
• Looking Ahead to 2024: Illinois to Require Paid Leave for Any Reason
• FTC Proposes a Rule to Ban Non-Competition Clauses in Employment Agreements
• New York City’s Wage Transparency Law Goes Into Effect on November 1, 2022
• Illinois Expands Unpaid Bereavement Leave
• Employer Liability in Interfering with FMLA Rights
• July 1, 2022 Deadline for Chicago Employers to Update Sexual Harassment Policies and Display New Poster
• Meal and Rest Period Premium are “Wages” that Must be Reported on Wage Statements, and Paid Timely
• Non-Union and Union Employers – The National Labor Relations Board’s Impact on Your Business
• Congress Amends Federal Arbitration Act with Respect to Arbitrability of Claims of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment
• New York City to Require Bias Audits of Automated Employment Tools
• New York City to Require Employers to List Salary Ranges in Job Postings
• California Reinstitutes Paid COVID Leave
• Supreme Court Blocks OSHA “Vaccine-Or-Test” Rule for U.S. Workers
• Department of Labor Final Rule for Tipped Employees
• U.S. Department of Labor Issues Emergency Rule on COVID-19 Vaccinations and Testing for Medium and Large Employers
• Multistate Labor and Employment Law Compliance with Rise of Remote Workers
• California Senate Bill 331 – “Silenced No More Act”
• Texas Expands Protections Against Sexual Harassment
• North Carolina Amends Wage Notification Obligations for Employers
• California Meal, Rest, and Recovery Period Penalties Include More Than Just Regular Hourly Wage
• President Biden Signs Executive Order to Promote Competition in the American Economy
• California Falls into Line on Workplace COVID-19 Restrictions
• Illinois Passes Sweeping Non-Compete and Non-Solicitation Changes
• Judge Dismisses Texas Lawsuit on Vaccine Mandate
• New York Passes New Workplace Safety Requirements
• Expansion of New Jersey WARN Act Draws Near
• Santa Clara County, California, Issues New COVID Safety Order Requiring that Governmental Entities and Businesses Ascertain the Vaccination Status of Their Personnel
• OSHA Directs Employers to Follow CDC Mask Guidance
• Virginia Passes Overtime Wage Act
• California Expands COVID-19 Supplement Paid Sick Leave
• American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 Expands Voluntary Families First Coronavirus Response Act Leave
• Updates to the Minimum Wage Rate and Tip-Credit Regulations: For The New York Restaurant and Hospitality Industry
• D.C. Passes Ban on Non-Compete Agreements Amendment Act of 2020
• The PRO Act Would Change Labor Laws for Non-Union and Unionized Employers
• DOL Issues Opinion Letter Regarding Staffing Firms and FLSA Exemption for Retail or Service Establishments
• OSHA Releases Updated COVID-19 Guidance
• EEOC Offers New Resources for Employers
• DOL Issues New Policy on FMLA Leave and Notice Requirements and New Rule on Worker Classifications
• Department of Labor Issues Two New Opinion Letters Regarding Travel Time and Overtime Payments
• Employers Grapple with Recent Ban-the-Box Legislation
• Department of Labor Issues New Rule on Tip Regulations
• Wage and Hour Considerations for the Remote Workplace
• Employer Considerations for COVID-19 Vaccinations
• Annual Party Poopers’ Guide to the Holidays: Pandemic Edition
• ICE Extends WFH Remote Form I-9 Verification to December 31, 2020
• New York Court Rules that OSHA’s Primary Jurisdiction Over Worker Health and Safety Blocks Nuisance Claim for COVID Related Matters
• California Voters Approve Enhanced Data Privacy Rights
• The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) Issues Two Opinion Letters
• California Enacts New Pay Data Collections and Reporting Requirements
• California Law Updates
• Treasury Department Issues Guidance on Payroll Tax Deferral
• Equal Employment Opportunity Commission Issues Q&A Guidance on Employment and Opioid Addiction
• United States Department of Labor Introduces New FMLA Forms and Guidance, Seeks Feedback on FMLA Regulations
• Supreme Court Rules Title VII Covers LGBTQ Workers
• California Dramatically Expands Eligibility for Workers’ Compensation Benefits for Employees Diagnosed with COVID-19
• Returning to Work During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Are You Ready?
• EEOC Announces Delay of EEO Data Collections Due to COVID-19
• What Employers Need to Know About Face Coverings
• New Jersey Amends State WARN Act and Family Leave Act
• Staffing Agency Not Liable for Conduct Beyond Its Control
• Expansion of Unemployment Insurance Under the CARES Act
• Department of Labor Issues Guidance on Overtime Payments Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Families First Coronavirus Response Act Notice
• Families First Coronavirus Response Act – New Federal Paid Leave and Other Requirements Impacting Employers
• New York Passes Legislation Requiring Paid and Unpaid Sick Leave to Employees Subject to Government-Ordered Quarantine or Isolation Due to COVID-19
• The Coronavirus is Giving Employers a Headache! You Have Questions. We Have Answers.
• Employers’ Guide to the Coronavirus Outbreak
• NLRB Finalizes New Joint Employer Rule
• New Jersey Passes Legislation Requiring Increased Notice and Severance Pay
• Final Rule on Joint Employer Status Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
• Early Gifts for Employers: NLRB Changes Course Regarding “Quickie Elections”, Deducting Dues from Expired Labor Contracts, Discussing Ongoing Investigations, and Restricting Employees From Using Employer’s E-mail System
• U.S. Department of Labor Announces Final Rule to Update the FLSA’s Regular Rate Regulations
• ‘Tis the Season—How to Avoid the Dangers of Office Parties and Gifts (a/k/a the Labor and Employment Department’s Annual Party Poopers’ Alert)
• Pennsylvania Joins the List of States Outlawing the Fluctuating Workweek Pay Method
• The Gift that Keeps on Giving: Gift Cards without Braille may Now Lead to Litigation
• Puerto Rico Enacts Protection for Employees’ Credit History
• 2020 California Employment Laws
• UPDATE: DOL Highly Compensated Employee Exemption
• NLRB Creates New Framework for Employers to Anticipatorily Withdraw Union Recognition
• Employers May Limit Union’s Access to its Premises for Organizing Purposes — Reversing NLRB Precedent
• Overtime Exemption Déjà Vu: DOL Issues Final Rule Regarding Overtime Regulation
• California’s Stringent DYNAMEX “ABC” Independent Contractor Test Soon To Be Law
• Hurricane Dorian’s Impending Landfall Raises Many Employment-Related Concerns
• Illinois’ New Employment Laws Expand the Definition of Employer While Creating New Requirements for All
• New York Enacts Heightened Protections Against Harassment of Workers
• Predictive Scheduling Laws Coming to a City Near You
• California ABC Test
• The DOL’s Opinions Letters Regarding FLSA – Calculating Employee’s Regular Rate of Pay and Rounding Hours Worked
• U.S. Supreme Court Holds Title VII’s Charge-Filing Requirement With the EEOC is Not Jurisdictional
• BREAKING: EEO-1 Pay Data Required by September 30, 2019
• U.S. Department of Labor Proposed Expanding Overtime Eligibility to Over 1 Million Workers
• Deadline to File the 2018 EEO-1 Extended
• DOT Says Motor Carriers Need Not Comply with California Break Laws
• ‘Tis the Season—How to Avoid the Dangers of Office Parties and Gifts (a/k/a the Labor and Employment Department’s Annual Party Poopers’ Alert)
• Department of Labor Ends Its 20% Tip Credit Rule In Long-Awaited Opinion Letter
• Employer Obligations Regarding Election Day Leave
• New Jersey Releases Required Notice of Employee Rights in Connection with New Earned Sick Leave Law
• New York State Publishes Final Guidance in Connection with Anti-Sexual Harassment Law
• Updated FCRA Model Disclosures Required Sept. 21, 2018
• New York State’s Model Policy on Harassment
• The Massachusetts Noncompetition Act Significantly Alters Requirements for Employment Agreements Containing Non-Compete Clauses
• Persuader Rule
• NLRB Addresses Employee Handbook Standards Since Boeing
• New Maryland Law Requires Disclosure of Sexual Harassment in the Workplace
• Summer Internships: Should they be paid or unpaid?
• U.S. Supreme Court Upholds Class Action Waivers in Employment Arbitration Agreements
• New York City Council and New York State Pass Anti-Harassment Legislation
• New California Decision Favors Employees Who Receive Bonus Pay
• New York City’s New Requirements for Workplace Accommodations
• New Rules Impact Companies who use Interns and Apprentices
• Targeted Advertising: Effective or Discriminatory?
• Employment Laws to Watch in the New Year
• NLRB Returns to Past Precedent: Duty to Bargain over Changes and Traditional Community of Interest Standard
• Early Gift for Employers: NLRB Changes Course on Joint Employer Standard and Employee Handbook Analysis
• ‘Tis the Season—How to Avoid the Dangers of Office Parties and Gifts (a.k.a. the Labor and Employment Department’s Annual Party Poopers’ Alert)
• California Expands Sexual Harassment Training and Posting Requirements
• North Carolina Law Seeks to Coordinate Misclassification Investigations to Increase Enforcement
• Good News for Employers with Over 100 Employees
• Florida Law Seeks to Curb Abusive ADA Drive-By Lawsuits
• Preparing for the New EEO-1 Report
• Department of Labor to Revise Overtime Rule
• Department of Labor Reinstates Opinion Letters
• New York City Restricts Inquiries and Use of Job Applicants’ Salary History
• New Georgia Law Permits Employees to Use Sick Leave to Assist Family Members
• New York City Restricts Inquiries and Use of Job Applicants’ Salary History
• President Trump Revokes Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order
• District of Columbia Council Approves Paid Family Leave
• New York City Passes Protections for Freelance Workers
• ADA ‘Drive By’ Lawsuits On The Rise
• Despite Federal Injunction, New York State Department of Labor Proposal to Increase Overtime Exempt Salary Thresholds Likely to be Enacted
• Florida Circuit Court Blocks December 1, 2016 Workers’ Compensation Rate Increase
• How to Get Your Company into the Holiday Spirit without Being a Grinch
• Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus!
• EEOC Continues to Encourage Courts To Protect Sexual Orientation Under Title VII
• Cook County Enacts New Paid Sick Leave Ordinance
• Employers’ Obligations Under New York Election Law
• Florida Approves a Double Digit Workers’ Compensation Rate Increase to Take Effect December 1, 2016
• New EEO-1 Form Aims to Collect More Employment Data
• The Clock Ticks Down: New DOL Overtime Rules Set to Take Effect on December 1
• Massachusetts Raises the Bar for Equal Pay
• The NLRB Continues To Focus On Employee Handbooks
• 30 Extra Days to Respond to EEOC’s New Pay Data Rule
• NLRB Rules That Temporary Staffing Agency Workers Now Eligible to Vote in Union Elections
• Tennessee’s New “No Firearms” Notice Requirement
• OFCCP Brings Sex Discrimination Rules into the 21st Century
• EEOC Increases Penalty for Violation of the Notice Posting Requirements of Title VII, the ADA, and GINA
• The U.S. Department of Labor’s New Overtime Regulations Have Arrived
• Congress Passes the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016
• Georgia’s New Legislation Seeks To Protect Franchisors Threatened By *Browning-Ferris*
• New FMLA Poster and Employer Guide
• New U.S. Department of Labor Rule Allegedly “Improves Transparency for Workers Considering Union Representation.”
• The U.S. DOL’s White Collar Overtime Rule May Come Sooner Than Expected
• The EEOC is Making Waves with New Electronic Notification System and Two Sexual Orientation Cases
• Proposed Additional Requirements for the Annual EEO-1 Reports
• Employer’s Voice-Recording Ban is Unlawful
• “Joint Employer” to be Defined as Broadly as Possible
• New York City Enacts Expanded Protections for Transgender Individuals and New Protections for Caregivers
• Pinellas County, Florida to Join the Fight Against Wage Theft
• Beware of the Perils of End-of-the-Year Bonuses, the Office Holiday Party, and the Department of Labor’s Gift of New FLSA Regulations.
• OFCCP’s New Pocket Card (Over) Simplifies Reasonable Accommodations
• Federal Court Finds Georgia Garnishment Statute Unconstitutional
• Federal Contractors Must Now Pay Sick Leave
• Settling Wage and Hour Claims in the Second Circuit is Now More Difficult (and Expensive)
• Independent Contractor? Not Likely
• NLRB Reverses Long-Standing Joint-Employer Standard Involving a Staffing Agency
• Illinois Proposes Changes to Pregnancy Accommodation Law
• The Second Circuit Rules on When an Intern is a Paid “Employee” Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
• DOL Proposed Rule to Make Millions of Employees Eligible for Overtime Pay
• The DOL Publishes New FMLA Health Care Provider Certification Forms
• Colorado Approves Firing For Off-the-Clock Medical Marijuana Use
• Employers Beware: New York City “Bans the Box”
• Georgia Amends Law to Allow Employer Use of Payroll Cards
• Courts May Review EEOC Conciliation Efforts—Narrowly
• Rethinking Pregnancy Accommodations
• New York Increases Minimum Wage for Tipped Workers
• Department of Labor to Issue Rule Revising the Definition of “Spouse” Under the Family and Medical Leave Act
• Massachusetts Expands Parental Leave Rights for All Employees
• Proposed Florida Law Could Have Big Impact on Day Laborers’ Compensation
• OFCCP Proposed Rules Could Have Dramatic Effect on Federal Contractors
• New York Eliminates Annual Wage Notice Requirement for Current Employees and Increases Penalties for New Hire Violations
• NLRB Adopts Final Rule to Amend Its Representation-Case Procedures
• NLRB Reverses Precedent, Allows Employees to Use Employer’s E-Mail Systems for Union Organizing (a/k/a Employers Do Not Have Property Rights For Their Computers)
• The U.S. Supreme Court Holds That Workers Do Not Have To Be Paid For Time Spent In Security Screenings
• OFCCP to Issue 2,500 Audit Notification Letters
• General Employment Law Update 2015
• LinkedIn Cases Implicating FCRA and Trade Secrets
• 2015—Minimum Wage to Increase in 18 States Including D.C.
• EEOC Sues Florida and Michigan Employers Over Transgender Discrimination
• ‘Tis the Season—How to Avoid the Dangers of Office Parties and Gifts
• New for 2015: VETS-4212 Report Replaces VETS-100A Report
• Ebola Considerations for U.S. Employers
• Department of Labor to Publish Final Rule Implementing Executive Order on Minimum Wage for Contractors
• States and Localities: Update On Discrimination and Leave Laws
• Weingarten Right Of Union Representation Extended by NLRB to Drug and Alcohol Testing
• ILLINOIS ENACTS LAW ON EMPLOYER USE OF PAY CARDS
• OFCCP PROPOSES RULE REQUIRING FEDERAL CONTRACTORS TO FILE AN EQUAL PAY REPORT
• NLRB’s Office of the General Counsel Issues Advice Memorandum That McDonald’s May Be Considered a Joint Employer
• President Obama Signs LGBT Executive Order
• Employers Beware: Telecommuting May Be a Reasonable Accommodation Under the ADA
• EEOC Issues New Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination
• NLRB Attempts to Expand its Reach with OSHA Referral Agreement
• Regulatory Agenda Sets Deadline for Proposed Revisions to FLSA Exemptions
• OFCCP Establishes Five-Year Moratorium for TRICARE Providers
• Expanded New York City Paid Sick Leave Law Is Now in Effect
• EEOC Offers New Guidance Regarding Religious Accommodations for Employees
• President Obama to Secretary of Labor: Streamline the FLSA’s White-Collar Overtime Exemption
• Department of Labor Veterans’ Employment and Training Service Issues Proposed Reporting Requirement Revisions
• Executive Order Raises Minimum Wage and Tipped Wage for Federal Contractors
• Employees’ Election Day Rights Debate

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