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A National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) field office issued a complaint against Home Depot asserting that the home improvement chain discriminated against a Minneapolis employee who wore a “Black Lives Matter” slogan on his apron.

The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has extended the 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 filing deadline one last time to Monday, October 25, 2021. As previously reported, the EEOC in July pushed back the original July deadline to August 23 […]

The New York State Department of Taxation and Finance (DOTF) issued much-needed guidance regarding the tax treatment of deductions from employee wages used to finance…

​Covered employers now have until Oct. 25 to file their 2019 and 2020 EEO-1 reports, according to a recent announcement from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Here’s what employers need to know ahead of the deadline.

Gov. Daniel McKee recently approved broad new pay equity legislation that will require employers to change many common workplace practices.

An Institute of Labor Economics study gathered 18 years of California’s workers’ compensation system claims and compared it to the daily temperature data, and found that hotter temperatures cause approximately 20,000 injuries each year. Interestingly, these additional workplace injuries aren’t […]

In the tech sector, a company’s lack of diversity and inclusiveness also prompts workers to quit, especially younger workers, according to a new report. More than two-thirds of U.S. employers think their workforces lack diversity, but many are unsure how […]

Eighty-two percent of employers say they perceive a talent shortage — many of whom offered signing bonuses to new employees as a short-term fix for this shortage, according to a new Salary.com survey. More specifically, hourly employees received a median signing bonus […]

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the dismissal of an employee’s failure-to-accommodate claim against her employer for refusing to split a full-time position into two part-time positions.

Employees are engaged in activity protected by Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 when they investigate discrimination complaints and enforce equal employment opportunity policies, even if those tasks are part of their job duties.