Virginia’s permanent COVID-19 workplace safety standard largely reiterates the requirements of the emergency temporary standard, but several material modifications were made. Source: New feed 2

The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its first-ever criminal charges alleging a group of employers agreed not to hire away each other’s senior-level employees. Source: […]

As the COVID-19 vaccine becomes more widely available, there are legal factors employers should bear in mind when deciding whether to offer incentives to encourage vaccination. […]

America Saves Week 2021, taking place from Feb. 22 to Feb. 26, is an opportunity to encourage employees to start saving through their workplace retirement plan […]

States reported that 779,000 U.S. workers filed for new unemployment benefits during the week ending Jan. 30, a decrease of 33,000 from the previous week’s revised […]

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of Americans with Disabilities Act claims of a Lowe’s market director who could not find a […]

Congress closed 2020 by enacting two laws containing whistle-blower protections: the Anti-Money Laundering Act (AMLA) and the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act. The AMLA may foreshadow a […]

Employers will no longer be able to participate in a federal program that allowed businesses to self-report federal minimum wage and overtime violations in an effort […]

A court in Germany ruled that employees can use a language other than German when communicating with a labor union, so long as translations are available. […]