United States: Don’t Let California’s Sick Leave Law Leave You Sick This New Year’s: Be Prepared To Comply On January 1!

California employers are facing a healthy dose of new requirements next month as the notice and posting provisions in the state’s recently enacted paid sick leave law take effect. To help employers comply before ringing in the New Year, the California Labor Commissioner has published a revised Wage Theft Notice and a new workplace poster.

As we posted on September 12, the new Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 requires employers to provide up […]

By | December 16th, 2014 ||

New Perspectives Of Temporary Work In Brazil

Companies have been using the temporary work, only kind of “manpower assignment” legally allowed in Brazil, since the publication of Law 6,019 in 1974, which regulated the subject.

However, the very restricted situations where it could be used, added by the briefness of said law, resulted in many misuses of this legal arrangement. Consequently, some companies were fined by the Labor Ministry due to irregular hiring of temporary workers, others were subject to investigation procedures […]

By | December 15th, 2014 ||

United States: EEOC Gets Schooled: Court Expels Challenge To College’s Separation Agreements

For the second time in less than two months, a federal district court judge has dismissed a U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) challenge to an employer’s separation agreement due to the agency’s failure to conciliate.  On December 2, a federal district court judge in Colorado dismissed the portion of a lawsuit against CollegeAmerica alleging that the college’s separation and release agreements interfered with employees’ rights under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA). […]

By | December 15th, 2014 ||