I'm excited to be moderating this seven webinar series for 2023! About This Series If you have employees or advise employers, these webinars are for you! No employer—whether large, medium or small—is immune from the reach of federal, state and local employment laws and regulations. Now, more than ever, employers should consider taking a proactive [...]
My client, the Dill Pickle Food Co-op (DPFC), is pleased to announce that their former labor union, the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) was decertified on 12/20/22. The IWW was replaced with the DPFC's own employees’ union, the Dill Pickle Food Co-op Workers Union. The new Union & DPFC are excited and pleased that employees chose to go [...]
Contractor v. Employee: Dept. of Labor Proposed Employee Classification Rule December 19, 2022; By Charles A. Krugel Contractor v. employee violations occur in every industry. This is in part due to the regulatory processes in wage rates, labor agreements, and exemptions defining who is and who isn’t an independent contractor. To paraphrase a genial and [...]
Thanks to Cheryl Winokur Munk for quoting me in her 11/15/22 article for Property & Casualty Specialist. Due to copyright restrictions, I'm only posting my contributions. The above links should take you to P&C's website oe the article itself. Carriers Should Prepare for Potential Rise in Sexual Harassment Claims With more people returning to work, [...]
https://hrexecutive.com/the-hr-troubles-with-twitters-layoffs-and-how-to-avoid-them/ The HR troubles with Twitter’s layoffs—and how to avoid them By Tom Starner November 10, 2022 When new billionaire owner Elon Musk laid off roughly half of Twitter‘s employees last week using workers’ personal email addresses, HR’s reaction and advice was strong and swift—on and off the social media network. Clumsy, unprofessional, brutal, inhumane, [...]
