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Oregon - Wage & Hour
An employer that acquired the assets of a defunct bar and restaurant and continued to operate a restaurant on the same premises was liable for unpaid wages owed to the defunct restaurant’s former employees, the Oregon Supreme Court has ruled. Blachana LLC v. Bureau of Labor and Industries, No. S0607
New Jersey - Law Against Discrimination
A new New Jersey law prohibits pregnancy discrimination in the workplace and requires employers to provide pregnant employees with reasonable, pregnancy-related accommodations, upon request, absent a showing of undue hardship. California and Maryland are other states that have extended their accommo
D.C. - Wage & Hour
The District of Columbia’s minimum wage will increase to $11.50 per hour, from $8.25 per hour, by July 2016 under the D.C. Minimum Wage Amendment Act (“MWAA”), signed into law by District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray.
New Jersey - General
An employee who removes or copies her employer’s documents for use in her whistleblower or discrimination case may be prosecuted criminally for stealing, a New Jersey state court has ruled. State v. Saavedra, No. A-1449-12T4 (App. Div. Dec. 24, 2013). The employee had taken highly confidential origi
New York - Human Rights Law
While the New York City paid sick leave law enacted in 2013 over the veto of then-Mayor Michael Bloomberg has yet to become effective, Mayor Bill de Blasio and City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito already have proposed significant modifications to the legislation. The proposed changes are like
Minnesota - General
A divided Minnesota Supreme Court has reaffirmed longstanding precedent holding the presumption of the employee-employer relationship in Minnesota is “at-will.” Dukowitz v. Hannon Security Services, No. A11-1481 (Minn. Jan. 2, 2014). This means that either the employee or the employer can terminate
New York - Unemployment
Changes to the New York state unemployment insurance law will require employers to think twice about how they respond to formal inquiries from the New York State Department of Labor (“NYDOL”) on former employees who have filed claims for unemployment benefits.
New Jersey - General
A New Jersey appeals court has upheld a state law banning employers from stating in job advertisements that applicants “must be currently employed,” ruling the law does not infringe upon the constitutional right to “free speech.” New Jersey Dep’t of Labor and Workforce Dev. v. Crest Ultrasonics et a
Tennessee - General
A licensed time-share salesperson was not entitled to unemployment benefits following the termination of her service agreement with a time-share company because she was a “licensed real estate agent” excluded from the Tennessee Employment Security Law, the Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled. Westgate
New York - Human Rights Law
With New York City’s announcement that the economic indicators for implementation of the NYC earned sick time have been satisfied, private-sector NYC employers (with the exception of manufacturing industry employers exempted from the enactment’s coverage) must now fully prepare for the statute’s app
California - Wage & Hour
The California Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) is taking aim at employers for wage theft. In the latest example of the Division’s aggressive stance, it claimed Little Lopez Corporation, a janitorial services provider, owed wages to 41 current and former employees and, following an inv
D.C. - General
In the first change since 2010, the wage rate required by the Washington D.C. Living Wage Act has been increased to $13.40 per hour. The increase is retroactive to January 2013.
Colorado - General
Effective January 1, 2014, state-licensed retail establishments are permitted to sell marijuana to the general public under Colorado’s “Amendment 64: The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act of 2012,” which on November 6, 2012, Colorado voters approved as an amendment to the state constitution. For i
New Jersey - General
Beginning January 6, 2014, all New Jersey employers with at least 50 employees, whether working inside or outside of New Jersey, will be required to conspicuously post and distribute to employees a new gender equity notice. The notice advises employees of their rights to be free from gender inequity
Utah
A U.S. District Court in Utah has held that “Utah’s prohibition on same-sex marriage conflicts with the United States Constitution’s guarantees of equal protection and due process under the law. The State’s current laws deny its gay and lesbian citizens their fundamental right to marry and, in so do
New Mexico
The State of New Mexico “is constitutionally required to allow same-gender couples to marry and must extend to them the rights, protections, and responsibilities that derive from civil marriage under New Mexico law,” the New Mexico Supreme Court has held in a landmark decision. Griego v. Oliver, No.
California - Fair Employment And Housing Act
Evidence of a prior narcotics conviction could be used to show that the employee was not qualified for a union organizer position, even though the employer did not learn of the conviction until after it made the decision not to hire the plaintiff, the California Court of Appeal has ruled. Horne v. I
California - Wage & Hour
Announcing that “class-wide relief remains the preferred method of resolving wage and hour claims, even those in which the facts appear to present difficult issues of proof,” the California Court of Appeal reversed an order denying certification of a class of restaurant managers who claimed they wer
Alaska
An employer did not breach the implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing under Alaska law for terminating an employee for allegedly falsifying prescription drug records, the Alaska Supreme Court has ruled. Beach v. Handforth-Kome, No. 6845 (Alaska Nov. 29, 2013). Although the employee argued t
Oregon - General
Employers with operations in Oregon should ensure their policies and practices are in compliance with the state’s new employment laws going into effect on January 1, 2014. The new laws will affect the day-to-day operations of many businesses.