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On July 11, 2013, the Governor of Rhode Island signed a new bill into law which will expand the state’s temporary disability insurance program to provide wage replacement benefits to workers who take time off to care for a seriously ill family member. This alert examines the provisions of the new law, which takes effect … Continue Reading
The Governor of Oregon recently signed a law to mandate that certain private employers provide employees with bereavement leave. The new law, which is contained in an amendment to Oregon’s existing family leave statute, takes effect January 1, 2014. This alert provides an overview of the new law for employers. Read the full text of this … Continue Reading
A 2012 Advice Memo from the National Labor Relations Board’s General Counsel, which was publicly released two weeks ago in response to a Freedom of Information Act request, addresses a number of hot social media topics affecting the workplace. This alert takes a closer look at the Advice Memo, which concludes that portions of Giant … Continue Reading
On June 27, 2013, a divided New York Court of Appeals held in Cunningham v. New York State Dept. of Labor, that the state can use GPS tracking to monitor its employees during working hours without a warrant. Read this alert for an analysis of this important decision for employers. Read the full text of … Continue Reading
In the recent decision in United States v. Windsor, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down the federal law that defined “marriage” as a legal union between one man and one woman as husband and wife, and “spouse” as a person of the opposite sex who is a husband or a wife. These definitions, codified in … Continue Reading
Rhode Island Laws Extend Paid Benefits to Caregivers
By Allan Weitzman, Fredric Leffler, Katharine Parker and Marc A. Mandelman on Posted in Leaves of Absences, Workplace Policies and Procedures
Oregon’s Bereavement Leave Law Is the First of Its Kind
By Allan Weitzman, Fredric Leffler, Katharine Parker and Marc A. Mandelman on Posted in Leaves of Absences, Workplace Policies and Procedures
Release of 2012 Advice Memo Pulls Together Principles Applied by the NLRB in Evaluating Employer Social Media Policies
By Allan Weitzman, Scott Faust, Ronald Meisburg, Mark Theodore, Marc A. Mandelman, Michael Lebowich, Katharine Parker, Fredric Leffler and Bernard M. Plum on Posted in Performance Management, Discipline & Termination, Workplace Policies and Procedures
New York Court of Appeals Approves Warrantless GPS Tracking of Government Employees
By Allan Weitzman, Fredric Leffler, Katharine Parker and Marc A. Mandelman on Posted in Litigation and Arbitration, Workplace Policies and Procedures
Supreme Court’s DOMA Decision Affects Employers’ Obligations Under the FMLA
By Allan Weitzman, Fredric Leffler, Katharine Parker and Marc A. Mandelman on Posted in Accessibility & Accommodation, Workplace Policies and Procedures