Patti Ramseur and Alex Maultsby of Fox Rothschild’s national Labor & Employment Practice offer insights on employee classifications.
Engaging independent contractors instead of hiring employees is enticing… no overtime pay, benefits, tax withholdings, FICA obligations or legal liability for certain claims.
If you misclassify a worker, however, the penalties are great — back overtime pay,
At this blog, we’ve written extensively about the proliferation of legislation at the state and local level to prohibit employers from inquiring about the salary or wage history of job applicants. As with state and local laws requiring employers to provide paid sick leave, laws restricting employers from making wage inquiries during the application
Leave laws continue to be one of many jurisdictions’ top legislative priorities.
If you are going to be in Chicago next week, maybe I can help you understand your obligations under various leave laws.
I’m speaking at MAPI’s Benefits & Compensation in Manufacturing Conference on paid leave laws. Join me and other industry experts April
Often times when I am speaking to a client about an employee’s requested accommodation for a disability, we are talking about leave as that is often the request most difficult to accommodate. Another one that gives employers fits is “light duty.” But what about some other types of accommodations?
A recent Pennsylvania case reminds employers
With the prevalence of medical marijuana laws in this country, I routinely get asked by employers what are the rules where an employee has a medical marijuana card? Can I still do pre-employment screening? What if they are using at work? Do I have to accommodate medical marijuana in the workplace?
Get the answers to
Earlier this year, New Jersey enacted a law to protect breastfeeding employees and require employers to provide certain accommodations to breastfeeding employees.
Notably, this law required reasonable accommodations as a general matter but also noted that reasonable accommodation “shall include reasonable break time each day to the employee and a suitable room or other location
Unless you’ve been living under a rock in New Jersey, you likely know that paid sick leave will be the law of the land for all New Jersey employers beginning on October 29, 2018. We recently issued an update on the law and included a link to the draft poster that has been issued by
As an employment lawyer, I anxiously awaited the proposed regulations for the New Jersey sick leave law as the law left some unanswered questions regarding carryover and other issues. The proposed regulations have been out for a few weeks now and I have had time to thoroughly digest them
Unfortunately for employers, the proposed regulations
On Fox’s Immigration View blog, partner Alka Bahal provides a detailed exploration of the I-9 inspection process, in the wake of a recent surge in I-9 audits carried out by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. All employers in the United States are required to have a Form I-9 on file for all
Yesterday, I spent a large part of my day talking about harassment training. Between completing a pitch for new work and scheduling training for existing clients, the questions I faced most were the following: