A U.S. district court ruled that the NLRB’s 2023 joint employment regulations—which provided that indirect or reserved control, even if never exercised, could be sufficient to establish joint employment—was defined overbroadly. The... Read more »
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has released its long-anticipated Final Rule revising the standard for determining whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act... Read more »
Today in the LawSites video series How It Works, we get a demonstration of AutoNDA, a free software platform developed by SimpleDocs to automate the creation and management of non-disclosure agreements under the... Read more »
As the temperatures cool outside, the regulations for indoor heat illness prevention are heating up. Cal/OSHA has been working on a proposed Indoor Heat Illness Prevention Standard since 2017. In the spring... Read more »
Quick Hits On November 9, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board—which is Cal/OSHA’s standards-setting agency—published proposed modifications to the draft indoor heat illness standard. These modifications were based on suggestions... Read more »
The retail industry is a shift-based industry, dependent on workers signing up for weekday and weekend shifts, for holidays, and for times when few average workers would dream of being awake and... Read more »
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit recently announced that Title VII plaintiffs are no longer required to plead an “ultimate employment decision” to properly allege a disparate treatment claim.... Read more »