With few exceptions, employers with 100 or more employees and certain government contractors are required to submit a workplace profile, broken down by race, sex, ethnicity, and job category, to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) by May 31, 2019. This year, covered employers must also comply with a ...
By Glen Krebs
We have heard a lot recently about the H-1B CAP. The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (“USCIS”) just completed its lottery to select which H-1B visa applications it will review. They will soon start to return the applications and fees for those cases that were not selected in the lottery. Next year, the process will be ...
By Brian Thomas and Anthony Germany Jr.
Corporate trainer Dana Brownlee held a seminar a few years ago, where a manager in her late 50s strongly criticized several young employees on her team. She complained that Millennials are lazy and never return her phone calls. They’d rather respond by text or email. The manager was furious. She remarked ...
By Sharon Gold
The Kentucky Pregnant Workers Act (“the Act”), adopted in April, amends the Kentucky Civil Rights Act (“KCRA”), and expands protections for pregnant workers in Kentucky. The Act applies to employers who have 15 or more employees within the state in each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar ...
In 2012, actress Quvenzhané Wallis made history as the youngest actress to be nominated for an Academy Award. She was just five years old when she appeared in the highly acclaimed film Beast of the Southern Wild. She also made history for her response to a reporter’s question on the Oscars red carpet. Quvenzhané had starred as the title character ...
Have you ever left the house only to later discover that your socks don’t match? I have!
While that kind of mismatch may be irritating, the Social Security Administration’s (SSA) recent return to a practice of sending “no match” letters to employers may prove even more troublesome.
The SSA has recently brought back a practice of sending ...
On April 29, 2019, the Department of Labor issued an opinion letter pertaining to individuals providing services in the “unidentified virtual marketplace,” and placed a thumb on the scale in favor of their status as independent contractors, rather than employees. The “unidentified virtual marketplace,” also known as ...
While many of us were distracted with GoT (for those of you that somehow don’t know what that means, it stands for Game of Thrones) and preparing for Avengers: Endgame (including myself), Uncle Snoop Dogg flew in and left a cloud of Mary Jane over New York when he left. Though not involved with the enactment of a recent bill in New York City, it seems like ...
By Jordan White
On April 22, 2019, the Supreme Court granted certiorari and consolidated three cases involving whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1), prohibits employment discrimination based on an individual’s sexual orientation and transgender status. The three cases are: Zarda v. Altitude Express ...