If you have 15 or more employees, your company is covered by the new federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act and its even newer regulations, in effect as of June, 2024. Maybe you’ve read that PWFA is modeled on the Americans with Disabilities Act, and requires reasonable accommodations. But unless you’ve […]
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01
Sep
2024
PWFA: What you don’t know can hurt you!
05
Aug
2024
New Multi-Lingual NLRB Resources Online
The National Labor Relations Board has just published a series of new resources on its website on employee rights and employer and union responsibilities under the National Labor Relations Act in 17 languages. The NLRB’s website now hosts “Know Your Rights” documents, information on immigrant worker rights, and instructions on how to […]
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I am happy to announce that I will be teaching a 2-hour interactive webinar: “Pregnant Workers Fairness Act: Accommodations and Strategies” on Thursday, May 23, from 1-3 EDT. Final regulations for the new Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) were recently released by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and become effective […]
Read moreThat’s what the Red Queen told Alice at the beginning of Through the Looking Glass. You may feel like that sometimes, when you consider keeping up with changing requirements for posters and forms. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights issued new mandatory posters […]
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05
Sep
2021
Failure to Accommodate Disability = Liability
Traditionally, an adverse employment action—getting disciplined or fired, being denied a raise or promotion, for example—has been a necessary part of a discrimination case. But in the area of disability discrimination, state and federal courts around the country have differed about whether an employee who has been denied a disability […]
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