In June 2019, the federal court for the southern district of Alabama ruled against a Burger King franchise that required a two-call policy for requesting leave […]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released a sample form, instructions and FAQs to help employers submit employee pay data—due to the agency by Sept. 30—sorted […]

​Three policy changes affecting the process for recertifying the SHRM-CP and SHRM-SCP credentials–allowing accrual of professional development credits (PDCs) during the grace period, early completion and […]

Raising the federal minimum wage to $15 per hour would raise pay for 27 million workers but also lead to over 1 million job losses, according […]

Employers generally don’t have to accommodate perceived disabilities, but an employer waived this argument and a jury verdict against it was upheld. Source: New feed 2

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s decision to require most employers to submit pay data sorted by race, ethnicity, gender and job category—so-called EEO-1 data—gives employers an […]

On July 9, the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans heard arguments in Texas v. United States, a lawsuit seeking to overturn the Affordable […]