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Dell’s New Remote Work Policy Sparks Debate – Can Employers Balance Remote Work with Career Progression?

Dell has hit headlines recently for its new work from home policy. According to the policy, fully remote employees will no longer be eligible for promotions. There is an exception, however, for hybrid (i.e., 3 days a week in-office) workers.…

FTC Issues Final Rule Banning Non-Competes Nationwide in All Industries

It’s been a busy week for the Biden administrative machine (and it’s only Wednesday).  Yesterday morning, we woke up to the Department of Labor’s new white collar exemption regulations (which we covered yesterday). By the afternoon, the Federal Trade Commission…

DOL Issues Final Rule Raising the Salary Threshold for Overtime Exemptions

On Tuesday, the Department of Labor issued its final rule modifying the standards for classifying employees as exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act.  To qualify for one of the white-collar exemptions (executive, administrative or professional),…

UAW’s Win at VW

The UAW’s $40 million “Southern Strategy” had its first success yesterday.   By a vote of 2,628-985, Volkswagen employees on Friday, April 19 chose the UAW.  Two prior votes were close defeats for the UAW—626-712 in 2014 and 776-883 in 2019. …

Supreme Court Decision: Employees May Challenge Unwanted Job Transfers as Discriminatory, Even if Transfers Don’t Involve Significant Disadvantage

Earlier today, the Supreme Court held that a police sergeant’s suit about her involuntary transfer to another division with less prestige and fewer perks was sufficiently injurious to allow her to sue for sex discrimination, even though her title and…

PWFA Final Regulations and Guidance: Potentially Turning the PWFA Into the Most Significant Employee Entitlement Since the FMLA

Eight months ago, the EEOC published draft Pregnant Worker Fairness Act regulations that drastically expanded the impact of this relatively simple and limited statute, proposing an interpretation that made the PWFA a leave-favoring FMLA expansion available to nearly all employees,…