To say compliance is a challenge for employers facing increasingly stringent pay transparency, pay reporting, and pay equity requirements is an understatement.
This article explores the issues in setting and publicizing salaries that meet your organization’s goals and legal requirements as well as recent trends in enforcement.
While employers know to have comprehensive anti-discrimination and harassment policies in place, having workplace policies supporting employees who choose to transition their gender is also important.
This article discusses how to effectively navigate the laws surrounding employees’ civil rights and religious freedom while maintaining a safe and respectful workplace.
This checklist provides considerations for initiating internal investigation in a corporate setting.
It covers key steps such as assessing the need for an investigation, defining its scope, selecting supervisors, preserving documents, and conducting interviews.
This article delves into the evolving landscape of social media investigations, covering best practices, legal frameworks, and strategic solutions to help employers conduct effective fact-finding and manage their workforce in the digital era.
Check out these three checklists to help avoid hiring problem employees, manage those toxic employees already in your workplace, and fully document conduct and behavior in response to a charge or litigation brought by a problem employee.
This article discusses how to handle workplace safety investigations by the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA).
This multi-jurisdictional guide explores an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding business crime across a range of jurisdictions.
Topics covered include criminal law enforcement, corporate criminal liability, statutes of limitations, initiation of investigations, and procedures of gathering information – in 18 jurisdictions.
President Joe Biden issued an executive order on Oct. 30, 2023 addressing the use of artificial intelligence by the government and employers.
Employers must take note that this action imposes new policies and affects civil rights issues and employment opportunities. This article provides an overview of the EO’s eight guiding principles.
On April 23, 2024, the US Federal Trade Commission voted 3-2 to adopt a sweeping final rule banning the use of non-compete agreements nationwide.
This article provides of an overview of the final rule, which marks an abrupt departure from existing law in many jurisdictions and has drawn almost immediate legal challenges.
Learn steps your organization should take following the Federal Trade Commission's issuance of a final rule banning most noncompete agreements. This article from Cozen O'Connor discusses the FTC rule and how employers should respond if they have employees with noncompetes or are considering whether to implement them.