Employee Discipline And Termination: Avoiding Problems Through Effective Communication And Documentation

On Aug. 30, AB-1883 received final legislative approval and now heads to California Governor Gavin Newsom for signature or veto. If enacted, AB-1883 would prohibit employers from using workplace surveillance tools that rely on artificial intelligence (AI) to recognize, infer, or predict an employee’s emotional state, or to collect “neural data.”

Private-sector employers with "no-fault" attendance policies in New York will need to revisit their policies following an impending change to New York Labor Law.

Maintaining meaningful human oversight, understanding how systems reach recommendations and reviewing consequential employment decisions are critical steps for manufacturers relying on AI as a decision-support tool.

The US Department of Labor has issued new guidance establishing a streamlined framework for enforcing mental health parity requirements under MHPAEA, focusing enforcement on three priority areas while maintaining nonenforcement of controversial 2024 rule provisions. This guidance aims to reduce compliance burdens on plan sponsors while ensuring participants maintain access to mental health and substance use disorder benefits comparable to medical and surgical coverage.

Under the federal Family Medical Leave Act, employees have the right to unpaid leave for family or personal medical reasons. New Jersey has adopted a similar state law requiring unpaid leave for qualifying employees.

As always, the NIC Conference in Chicago is a great experience and an unique opportunity to connect owners, managers, lenders and (of course) ...

The government incentivizes whistleblowers in order to increase healthcare recoveries under the False Claims Act. See our analysis here of how the Act's qui tam ...

New York State has enacted sweeping changes to employee personnel record requirements, mandating that employers provide free access to personnel files, notify employees of negative information within 10 days, and retain records for three years post-employment. These new obligations fundamentally reshape how New York employers must manage and maintain employee documentation.

Welcome to In the Breakroom, a podcast series on hot topics related to employment law. On July 9, 2021, President Joe Biden issued the "Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy,"

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected the NLRB's Tesla standard for evaluating workplace dress code policies, finding it fails to properly balance worker and employer interests. The court vacated the Board's decision against Starbucks and suggested a new three-factor test rooted in the traditional "special circumstances" framework.