Blogs

Cannabis in the Workplace

To Our Valued Clients In the ever-evolving landscape of U.S. labor laws and societal shifts, marijuana usage and its implications in the workplace stand “front and center.” As states continue to legalize or decriminalize cannabis, HR professionals and business lea...

Artificial Intelligence Employment Decisions

Many employers are now utilizing automated employment decision tools (“AEDTs’”) to make HR and employment decisions such as review of job applications, hiring, performance evaluations, retention, promotion, and termination. Employers should be cautious about usi...

Continued Changes to FLSA!

As many of you know, we have closely followed the U.S. Department of Labor’s changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA). Recently, the DOL revised the  annual salary-level threshold from $35,568 to $58,656, to be effective  January 1, 2025 for whit...

March 2024 Client Alert – Do Employees Really Car...

We are often contacted by our clients that today’s employees seem disinterested and unenthusiastic, often lacking the “work ethic” that business owners and managers themselves possess and value. Many times our clients are quick to blame Gen Z’ers, but we have ...

Employment Trends for 2024!

As the 2023 calendar year comes to a close, we look forward to 2024 and the trends that are emerging. Clearly, one of the emerging trends is the transition of leadership from the Baby Boomer generation to Generation Z and Millennials. As Generation Z (those born in 19...

Social Media Posts on the Israel-Hamas War

Social media has been ablaze since the October 7 terror attacks by Hamas on Israel creating friction between employers and employees. We have been asked several questions recently and wanted to offer some general thoughts and advice.  Typically, we are asked whether ...

FLSA Rule

We send our colleagues and clients a “client alert” each month on a topical change impacting HR policy. While we sent a client alert just a week ago, we have received a number of inquiries regarding the proposed increase by the Labor Department in the overtime thr...

Unemployment Regulations

As you know we provide client alerts for all significant changes and updates in laws that impact your business.  Beginning tomorrow, there are changes in the requirements that New Jersey employers need to deal with claims for Unemployment Insurance benefits. In fact,...

I9

The new version of   Form I9, Employment Eligibility Verification  (see attached) is now available for use. This version contains changes to the form and instructions, including shortening the Form I9 to one page and reducing the instructions to eight pages. Employ...

Off Duty Sexual Harassment

We are often asked whether an employee’s allegation of sexual harassment that occurs outside the workplace needs to be investigated by an employer – simply put, an employer should investigate the sexual harassment complaint even if it occurs off-duty and/or outsid...