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ESG and Human Capital Reporting: Contemplating Diversity Disclosures
Institutional investors and other stakeholders are seeking better information from public companies on workforce diversity. Company executives and boards are discussing how and what to disclose, and many observers believe the SEC will mandate further disclosures. Auditors are even mapping … Continue reading
Posted in Federal Contractor, Snell & Wilmer, Uncategorized
| Tagged Audit, Diversity, ESG, Human Capital Reporting
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CDC’s New Definition of “Close Contact” May Affect Workplace COVID-19 Response
Most employers are now familiar with pandemic-related terms such as quarantine, isolation, and social distancing, and by now you may have a response plan that incorporates those and other concepts for addressing COVID-19 in the workplace—if you don’t, then now … Continue reading
The Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Is Introduced
United States Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Representative Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) announced they will introduce the Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights. If passed, it would: Require employers with more than 500 workers to offer available hours to qualified part-time employees … Continue reading
Posted in FMLA, Uncategorized
| Tagged Employees, Family Medical Leave Act, Part-time Employees
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The Customer is Not Always Right: Sex Museums and Harassment
New York City’s Museum of Sex (“the Museum”) is facing a lawsuit from a former employee who alleges that the Museum failed to protect her from sexual harassment by her co-workers and the Museum’s patrons. The plaintiff’s complaint alleges that … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, EEOC, Uncategorized
| Tagged Civil Rights, EEOC charge, EEOC Guidance, Harassment, Museum, New York, Sex Museum, Sexual Harassment, Title VII
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States Push Back on Local Paid-Sick-Leave Laws
Snell & Wilmer’s Josh Woodard and Benjamin Nucci were quoted in Society for Human Resource Management’s HR Magazine article on the state and local paid sick leave laws across the country. Read on here.
Posted in Uncategorized
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Back-peddling on Who Is the Employer: The NLRB Proposes a Revision to the Joint Employer Standard
In a 2015 controversial decision, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) ruled that, for purposes of federal labor law violations, a business may be deemed a joint employer of another company’s employees if the business had “indirect” control over those … Continue reading
Posted in NLRB, Uncategorized
| Tagged Joint Employer Status, Joint Employers, NLRB
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