On March 24, 2020, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it will observe a “temporary period of non-enforcement” after the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) goes into effect on April 1, 2020. This period will begin March 18 and continue through April 17, 2020. The DOL will not bring enforcement actions against any public [...]
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On Wednesday, March 18, 2020, the US Senate passed HR 6201, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. President Trump signed the bill into law that night. Provisions of the Act take effect in 15 days and automatically expire on December 31, 2020. The measure passed by the Senate keeps intact the majority of provisions discussed [...]
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The US House of Representatives passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act on a bi-partisan basis on Saturday, March 14th. While the Act has not yet been passed by the Senate and signed by the President, the major portions of the Act are likely to become law in the coming days. The two most important [...]
Earlier this month, we published a blog article outlining how employers can prepare for employee illness related to the flu season and Coronavirus. Since then, federal and state authorities have implemented measures to slow the spread of Coronavirus. These measures present a number of concerns for employers who may have sick employees, or employees who [...]
Coronavirus (COVID-19) is everywhere in the news and everyone is talking about it. The virus, which was first recognized in December 2019, has spread from its point of origin to nearly fifty countries by the beginning of March 2020. But for all the news coverage in the American media, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) [...]
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMSCA) new Drug and Alcohol Clearinghouse went into effect January 6, 2020. The new program requires commercial driver’s license (CDL) employers, medical review officers, third-party administrators, substance abuse professionals and state driver’s license agencies to report failed and refused drug tests for CDL drivers to [...]
The DOL has issued a long-awaited final rule addressing the standard for determining joint-employer status in the context of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The rule seeks to settle confusion surrounding when a joint employer relationship is created for liability purposes under the FLSA. Prior to the rule issuance, federal circuit courts had been [...]
In Jones v. Johnson, No. 18-2252 (January 9, 2020), the Sixth Circuit addressed whether a party was entitled to information about allegedly comparable employees in a failure to promote case. The lawsuit was filed by a Department of Homeland Security employee, alleging that her employer discriminated against her on the basis of gender by failing [...]
