Employee Discipline
Nebraska employers may need to revise workplace drug policies following voter approval of a ballot initiative decriminalizing the use of medical marijuana.
A final rule issued by the DOL, HHS and Treasury Department will help ensure that group health plans and health insurance providers do not make it harder to access mental healthcare benefits or substance abuse treatment than other medical healthcare.
The Department of Justice's new Criminal Division Corporate Whistleblower Awards Pilot Program is taking aim at money laundering, health care fraud and domestic and foreign bribery.
A recently signed law creates a rebuttable presumption than an employer has unlawfully retaliated against an employee if the employer takes adverse actions shortly after the employee engaged in certain protected activities.
New York will soon require employers to provide employees notice of unemployment benefits, prohibit employers from demanding social media or email logins, and increase the weekly salary threshold for exemptions from wage payment laws.
Disciplining an employee for misconduct committed while the employee is participating in protected concerted activities may violate the NLRA, the National Labor Relations Board has ruled.
Temporary workers in New Jersey will have greater protections against unpaid wages, unsafe working conditions, unlawful deductions, and other forms of mistreatment under the recently signed Temporary Workers' Bill of Rights.
The Department of Labor found the company violated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act's whistleblower protection provisions by improperly terminating a manager who voiced concerns about financial misconduct.
Title VII's retaliation protections do not exempt HR managers and other managerial-level employees, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled.
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