Corporate Services, Inc. News (2023)

03/30/2023

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) obligations do not kick in unless an employer qualifies as a "covered employer" under the statute....more

03/30/2023

In recent months, companies have faced an increasing number of lawsuits that stemmed from opposing political views, from face masks and company dress codes to "woke" training ...more

03/30/2023

As more businesses transition from allowing remote work to mandating a return to the office, apart from the general employee backlash, one of the biggest human resources compl...more

03/24/2023

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently issued a decision in McLaren Macomb holding that severance agreements containing overly broad non-disparagement or ...more

03/22/2023

On March 17, 2023, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) published an updated version of the publication entitled, "A Summary of Your Rights Under the Fair Credit Re...more

03/22/2023

The U.S. Department of the Treasury has released a document to explain the revenue proposals included in President Biden's Fiscal Year 2023 proposed Budget. ...more

03/21/2023

A recent case out of New Jersey claims a nursing home that terminated a longtime worker's employment violated the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)....more

03/21/2023

Last August, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) published a notice in the Federal Register advising employers that in response to a Freedom of...more

03/20/2023

Kristie Alley began working for Penguin Random House as a full-time order processor in 2014. Within two years, Penguin promoted Alley to the management position of Group Leade...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

03/17/2023

Reductions in paid time off (PTO) and whether or not PTO are part of an employee's salary were the critical issues in a precedential decision that the Third Circuit Court of A...more

03/14/2023

Layoffs are here and with them comes an often-overlooked threat: trade secret misappropriation....more

03/14/2023

A new report released by the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) shows where the agency focused its litigation enforcement efforts for federal employment la...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

03/09/2023

A clinically obese customer service representative in Hawaii had a long history of diabetes and hypertension, resulting in physical limitations related to neuropathy in her ha...more

03/09/2023

A recent settlement secured by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) provides a basic lesson on how not to respond to requests for religious accommodation....more

03/08/2023

On Monday, March 6, 2023, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) delayed any potential implementation of its proposal to ban employers from imposing noncompetes on their workers b...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

03/03/2023

The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services recently announced that it is clarifying the validity period of off-campus employment authorization for international students pu...more

03/03/2023

Selecting a job candidate who is much younger than others can raise the specter of age bias — but employers are not handcuffed from doing so. They should, however, be pr...more