When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) opens its new term next week, one of the first cases it will hear involves the highly compensated employee overtime exemption. SCOTUS has scheduled oral arguments on the issue to be presented in Washington DC on October 12. The case being heard is Helix Energy Solutions…
Read More »The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) yesterday released new data via the agency website and added a new visualization tool for the public to view aggregated data about charges of discrimination filed with the agency for the past 25 years. The data dump includes the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 Component 1 data for private…
Read More »With just over one month remaining until the critical November mid-term elections, there are a number of ballot initiatives going before voters in different locales that warrant watching. Restaurant workers along with the city’s Mayor have again come out strongly against an initiative in Portland Maine. Known as Question D, the initiative would raise the…
Read More »Coming on the heels of a Boston Starbucks finally ending its 64-day strike last week, Starbucks Corporation indicated to Starbucks Workers United union officials that it will be prepared to start labor contract negotiations in October. In a letter sent early this week to the 238 stores that have formally unionized thus far, the company…
Read More »In a decision prompted by the ongoing Starbucks unionization battles, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) yesterday issued a decision in which it modified one of the six factors relating Regional Director discretion in allowing a union representation mail ballot versus an in-person manual ballot election, due to COVID-19 related conditions. Under the terms of…
Read More »California just continues to plow new territory in employment law and business mandates. Most recently, Governor Gavin Newsom, who pundits believe is positioning himself for a possible 2024 run for President, on Tuesday signed into law SB 1162, which will require California employers with 15 or more workers to include pay ranges in all job…
Read More »Notwithstanding issues we may have with many of the political positions Governor Gavin Newsom takes on a host of issues affecting small businesses as outlined above, he delivered on the positive side for franchisees late yesterday when he signed AB 676 into law. That legislation is a franchisee equity piece that clarifies the intent of…
Read More »The 2022 CFA Legal Symposium is just a month away, but you can still register today and save $100 off the registration fee with the CFA discounted Early Bird Rate of only $99. This premier event will be held this year at the Margaritaville Resort in Orlando, Florida, on October 26 & 27! Why not…
Read More »Having amended its mandatory E-Verify law back in May when Governor Bill Lee signed HB 1853 into law, the state of Tennessee will require all private employers with at least 35 employees to use E-Verify and maintain E-Verify case results effective January 1, 2023. Currently, the Tennessee Lawful Employment Act, (TLEA) adopted in 2017 only…
Read More »The US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) a few week ago released new data that showed consumer prices at full-service restaurants increase 9 percent in August compared to the year before, even surpassing the economy-wide four-decade record inflation rate of 8.3 percent! Meanwhile, costs of food consume at home skyrocketed by 13.5 percent over the…
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