Corporate Services, Inc. News (2023)

08/30/2023

On August 30, 2023, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to revise the "white collar" overtime exem...more

08/29/2023

On August 24, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (the "Board") issued a final rule (the "2023 final rule") amending the federal regulations that govern representation el...more

08/28/2023

On August 25, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released its highly anticipated decision in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific....more

07/26/2023

A mid-July letter signed by the attorneys general of 13 states warns Fortune 100 CEOs that they "will face serious legal consequences" if they take their DEI efforts too far b...more

07/06/2023

On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court unanimously agreed that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII) requires an employer that denies a religious accommodation to...more

06/30/2023

On June 29, 2023, the United States Supreme Court ruled that race-conscious admissions practices at Harvard College and the University of North Carolina (UNC) violate the Four...more

06/30/2023

The U.S. Supreme Court has expanded the duty of employers to provide religious accommodation to employees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VII)....more

06/26/2023

On June 9, 2023, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker signed into law HB 2907 and HB 3396, amending the Illinois Labor Disputes Act ("Act") to expand protections for striking work...more

06/21/2023

Ordinarily, when an employee accuses a supervisor of creating a hostile work environment, as long as the company has not taken a tangible employment action against that employ...more

06/07/2023

On June 1, 2023, in Glacier Northwest v. Teamsters, the United States Supreme Court ruled for the employer in a case with significant implications for the right of un...more

04/19/2023

On April 18, 2023, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral argument in Groff v. DeJoy, a case raising the issue of how great a burden an employer must bear in order to acco...more

03/17/2023

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit (NY, et al) has rejected an employee's claim that he was unlawfully discriminated against based on religion after he refused t...more

03/13/2023

Three months into the new legislative year, with all but a handful of state legislatures currently in session, clear employment law trends for 2023 have emerged....more

03/06/2023

A recent case out of Kentucky looks at whether there is a conflict between the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)....more

02/23/2023

On February 22, 2023, the United States Supreme Court issued its opinion in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, holding that paying an employee a "day rate"...more

02/21/2023

As workplace issues have become more complex, human resource professionals and managers often turn to employment lawyers for advice in sorting out matters involving the intera...more

02/09/2023

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is serious about enforcing federal labor laws, as shown by three recent cases that resulted in million-dollar payouts by alleged offenders....more

01/17/2023

The scope of the duty to provide religious accommodation to employees may well expand in 2023....more