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Show: results per page Sort by:  | New Colorado Law Prohibits Employer Access to Applicant and Employee Personal Social Media Accounts
Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 20, 2013, previously published on May 17, 2013 On May 12, 2013, Colorado’s governor signed H.B. 1046 into law to forbid employers from requiring or requesting that prospective and current employees disclose their username and password to their personal social media accounts. Several other states have codified similar laws, including...
| | Research Confirms OFCCP Compensation Settlements and Conciliations on the Rise
Matt Allen Decker Nusbaum; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 20, 2013, previously published on May 17, 2013 Research published by the Center for Corporate Equality (CCE), a Washington, D.C. research organization, reveals that the number of OFCCP audits resulting in a conciliation agreement has risen sharply under the Obama administration.
| | Third Circuit Holds Former NLRB Member Becker’s Recess Appointment Invalid, Vacates NLRB Decision Made In August, 2011
Ronald E. Meisburg; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 18, 2013, previously published on May 16, 2013 The United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has held that the President’s recess appointment power is limited to intersession recesses, i.e., those recesses which occur (if they occur at all) between sessions of the Congress. In so doing, it held the March, 2010 recess...
| | No Surprises in Senate Committee Hearing on NLRB Nominees
Ronald E. Meisburg; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 18, 2013, previously published on May 16, 2013 There were no real surprises at today’s Senate HELP Committee’s hearing on President Obama’s five NLRB member nominees. The Senate Committee members agreed that the nominees were well qualified for the jobs, and thanked them for their willingness to undertake public service. The...
| | Three California Contractors Fined a Total of $1.8 Million For Willful Violation of CA Wage, Apprenticeship Laws
Matt Allen Decker Nusbaum; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 17, 2013, previously published on May 15, 2013 As reported in the Bloomberg BNA Daily Labor Report, three contractors were found by the California Labor Commissioner to have “willfully” violated state wage and apprenticeship laws. The contractors were ordered to pay over $1.8 million in back wages, apprenticeship funds, fines and...
| | OFCCP Sets Deadline for Implementation of 2010 Census Data
Matt Allen Decker Nusbaum; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 17, 2013, previously published on May 16, 2013 On May 15, 2013, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (“OFCCP”) announced that covered federal contractors will have until January 1, 2014 to start using 2010 Census data for determining availability when preparing annual affirmative action plans.
| | EEOC's First GINA Suit Serves As Reminder of Pre-Employment Exam Pitfall
Fredric C. Leffler, Marc A. Mandelman, Katharine H. Parker, Leslie E. Silverman, Allan H. Weitzman; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 16, 2013, previously published on May 14, 2013 On May 7, 2013, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission ("EEOC") reached a milestone of sorts as it filed - and then settled - its first complaint ever alleging genetic discrimination under the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act of 2008 ("GINA").
| | California Governor Proposes Reforms to Proposition 65, Seeks To Prevent Abuse of Statute by "Unscrupulous Lawyers"
Nancy Sher Cohen, Shawn S. Ledingham, Gail S. Port; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 16, 2013, previously published on May 13, 2013 California Governor Edmund Brown has added his voice to a number of California legislators calling for an overhaul of the state's Safe Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act of 1986 ¿ better known as Proposition 65 (the number of the ballot initiative that resulted in its enactment)....
| | IRS Releases Guidance on Wellness Programs and “Affordability” under the Employer Mandate
Stacy H. Barrow, Lynda M. Noggle, Austen K. Townsend; Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 15, 2013, previously published on May 10, 2013 On May 3, 2013, the IRS released proposed regulations on certain provisions relating to the federal premium tax credits that eligible individuals will use to purchase subsidized health insurance coverage from public exchanges starting in 2014.
| | DC Circuit Court of Appeals Invalidates NLRB Rights Poster Holding Regulation Violates NLRA
Proskauer Rose LLP;
Legal Alert/Article May 10, 2013, previously published on May 9, 2013 A federal appeals court has rebuffed the NLRB's attempt to require employers to post in a "conspicuous" place in a workplace a poster that informs employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act. The NLRB's rule has been controversial from the start because it did not...
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