Connecticut Employers

Workplace Investigations: When Should You Consider Retaining an Outside Investigator

July 21, 2022Connecticut Employers, Employee Relations, Harassment/Discrimination, New Jersey Employers, New York City Employers, New York Employers, Tri-State Employers, Workplace Investigations

Increasingly, organizations are conducting workplace investigations in response to employee concerns – both those raised formally to human resources or through a written complaint or attorney demand letter, and those raised informally in a convers... Read More..

EEOC Removes Employers’ Blanket Authorization to Test Employees for COVID-19

July 18, 2022Connecticut Employers, COVID-19, Employee Relations, HR Policies, New Jersey Employers, New York City Employers, New York Employers, Tri-State Employers

Responding to the evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has concluded that we are past the emergency stage when it was always considered appropriate for employers to require screening tests of emplo... Read More..

Maximize Your Talent Pool: 3 Ways to Ensure Your AI Is Not Screening Out Qualified Job Candidates with Disabilities

July 11, 2022Connecticut Employers, Harassment/Discrimination, HR Policies, New Jersey Employers, New York Employers, Tri-State Employers

My son has been applying for hourly, entry-level summer jobs. Through his process, I am seeing first-hand, from the applicant’s perspective, the varying ways in which software, algorithms and artificial intelligence now predominate the job applica... Read More..

What the Supreme Court’s Recent Decisions on Guns and Prayer Mean for Private Employers

July 11, 2022Connecticut Employers, HR Policies, New Jersey Employers, New York City Employers, New York Employers

Two decisions handed down by the Supreme Court last month held that government actions were unconstitutional. In Kennedy v. Bremerton School District, the Court held that a public school district’s instruction to a high school football co... Read More..

California Lost Two Battles But May Have Won the War: Diversity Mandates Succeeded with Corporate Boards, Despite Recent Court Rulings Finding the Mandates Unconstitutional

July 5, 2022Connecticut Employers, HR Policies, New Jersey Employers, New York City Employers, New York Employers

By Tracey I. Levy In broad brushstrokes, California legislators sought to achieve gender and racial diversity on the boards of publicly held corporations headquartered in California several years ago by first mandating that every such board inc... Read More..

Consider Transparency of Outcomes from Workplace Investigations

July 21, 2022Connecticut Employers, Employee Relations, Harassment/Discrimination, New Jersey Employers, New York Employers, Workplace Investigations

By Tracey I. Levy What if we were less secretive about outcomes in our workplace investigations? Conventional wisdom, and the cautionary note I most commonly provide when conducting harassment prevention training for organizations, is that t... Read More..

COVID Mandates Have Lessened But Employers Still Have Obligations

May 16, 2022Connecticut Employers, COVID-19, Employer Notice Requirements, HR Policies, New Jersey Employers, New York City Employers, New York Employers, Paid Leave Time, Sick and Safe Leave

By Alexandra Lapes and Tracey I. Levy New York State employers may now suspend implementation of their infectious disease prevention plans (otherwise known as HERO Act plains), as the state’s order designating COVID-19 as a highly contagious co... Read More..

New Fed Arbitration Ban Warrants Employers Redouble Measures to Prevent Workplace Harassment

February 9, 2023Connecticut Employers, Employee Relations, Employer Notice Requirements, Harassment/Discrimination, HR Policies, New Jersey Employers, New York Employers, Workplace Training

By Tracey I. Levy In the aftermath of #MeToo, state legislatures across the country adopted a range of new employment law protections, typically focused around four objectives:

advising employees of their legal rights and obligatio... Read More..

Persistent Pay Inequity Drives Legal Mandates for Employers to Publicly Post Wages Being Offered

January 30, 2022Connecticut Employers, HR Policies, New York City Employers, New York Employers, Tri-State Employers, Wage and Hour Laws

By Tracey I. Levy and Alexandra Lapes Five or six years ago, in speaking with a start-up client about social media policies and wage transparency, the client explained they made available to all on their intranet a spreadsheet with salary infor... Read More..