States have significant flexibility to amend their laws to provide unemployment insurance benefits for employees who lose work because of effects of COVID-19, the respiratory disease […]

Lawmakers are negotiating the Families First Coronavirus Response Act—which could potentially provide free screening, paid leave and enhanced unemployment insurance benefits for people affected by COVID-19, […]

Can a worker be fired for refusing to come to work during the coronavirus outbreak? It depends on the conditions at the workplace and in the […]

Beginning July 1, the Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act will provide government-administered paid leave to employees in Washington, D.C. Here’s what employers in the district need […]

Virginia has joined other states and localities that have passed hair discrimination ban by expanding the Virginia Human Rights Act’s definition of racial discrimination to include […]

Human resource leaders in small organizations historically have only watched as their peers in larger companies invested in the latest-and-greatest HR technologies. Limited budgets often meant […]

The Trump administration’s goal to create a separate channel of employer-managed apprenticeships is set to be a reality. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a […]

Organizations have until midnight on Friday to identify foreign national employees in the 26 European countries listed for restricted travel by the Trump administration and plan […]