Governor Maggie Hassan recently signed two bills into law that may have significant impacts on New Hampshire businesses. The first, HB 1188 , which takes effect on January 1, 2015, prohibits employers from discharging, disciplining, or otherwise discriminating against an employee because
Coach, Inc. is the latest company to be sued for alleged misclassification of employees as unpaid interns. I just wrote about the trend in these class action lawsuits for the Union Leader’s Know The Law. These cases are often high profile because they involve a large number of former and current interns seeking monetary
The US Supreme Court recently found President Obama lacked the authority to make 3 recess appointments to the National Labor Relations Board in January 2012. It held the appointments invalid because the Senate was not in a “recess” at the time but rather was holding pro forma sessions every three days for weeks in a
The New Hampshire Legislature passed HB 1407 which will prohibit employers from obtaining an employee’s personal social media account user name and password. The bill passed both the House and the Senate. The governor is expected to sign it into law.
This bill applies to both employees and prospective employees for employment. Employers found to
The New Hampshire Commission for Human Rights has released data on discrimination charges filed by employees in 2013. Last year, the Commission received 222
discrimination charges against employers. This number was slightly down from the year before at 257. Retaliation across all categories topped the list at 93 claims. Following closly behind with 89
Perhaps one of the biggest and most unexpected pieces of news for employers came on March 13, 2014 when President Obama signed a memorandum instructing the USDOL to undertake its first overhaul of the FLSA since 2004. The agency is charged with the responsibility to update the regulations of who qualifies for overtime pay. The
This week, in workplaces across America, millions of employees—up to 50 million of them by some estimates—will be filling in brackets and participating in “March Madness”
office pools. The amount of money wagered in these office pools each year is believed to be as much as $3 billion. Beyond the losses in productivity associated with
It has been a long, cold winter this year with the Polar Vortex and record snowfall in many parts of the country. And while spring will arrive eventually, winter’s not over yet. (Remember what they say about March coming in like a lion….)
Sometimes, severe weather conditions lead employers to make the decision to shut
Apparently Patrick Snay never gave his daughter the sage advice my father, a naval veteran of World War II (OK, he went in after the war and made it as far as Jamaica, but the point still stands) gave me. Dad always reminded me to be cautious in sharing information with the world because as
The US Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, affirmed that unionized employers do not have to pay employees pursuant to FLSA Section 203(o) for time changing clothes when the “clothes” are not integral to the employees’ job performance and when the amount of time employees spend changing non-clothes is de minimis.
In Sandifer, employees,