Friday, April 26, 2024

LEGAL: Knowing when and how to fight an unemployment claim

Perhaps the most common form of employment “litigation” is a claim for unemployment compensation. Such claims are so common that only a few employers even...

LEGAL: Texas court nullifies Obama-era OT rate hike. What’s next?

By Jeff Jones Special to the UCBJ On Aug. 31, 2017, in Nevada v. U.S. Department of Labor, 2017 WL 3780085 (S.D. Tex.), a federal court...

MARIJUANA LAW UPDATE

Starting on Jan. 1, 2020, most Nevada employers will no longer be allowed to drug test potential new hires...

The times they are changing – Wage and Hour under the Biden administration

Not surprisingly, President Joe Biden’s administration has acted quickly to counteract many of the regulations and interpretive guidance issued by the previous...

⊕ LEGAL: Health reform update: U.S. Supreme Court considers a second opportunity to limit...

On March 4, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments in King v. Burwell, the second major case testing the future of the Affordable Care...

LEGAL: Harassment remains in the headlines

By Jeff Jones Special to the UCBJ Harassment remains in the headlines. In just a two day period in June, the EEOC brought eight separate harassment-based...