AB 1228, commonly referred to as the “Fast Act,” takes effect in California on April 1, 2024, and the consequences for non-compliance are serious.

Many affected companies have closely followed this legislation and planned for its impact. However, many are uncertain about its application or mistakenly assume it does not apply to them.

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  1. Pushback on DEI Initiatives – Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs and policies will remain at the forefront. Heightened awareness of DEI invites heightened scrutiny of such initiatives, particularly during an election year. Employers may also see more so-called reverse discrimination claims.
  2. Social Media Comments – As employers have already begun to see, employment decisions based
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On Oct. 26, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced its Final Rule on the joint-employer standard under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), which will take effect Dec. 26, 2023, and apply to cases filed after the effective date.

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“Hot Labor Summer” – so dubbed due to strikes by the Writers Guild, Screen Actors Guild, Southern California Hotel Workers, health care workers from multiple unions, and United Auto Workers – is not over. On Oct. 7, 2023, Gov. Newsom signed AB 1 (known as the Legislature Employer-Employee Relations Act), which gives California legislative staff…

Twenty-two attorneys from global law firm Greenberg Traurig, LLP are listed in Benchmark Litigation’s Labor & Employment 2024 Guide. Notably, Global Labor & Employment Practice Co-Chair James N. Boudreau is recognized as a “Top 50 Labor & Employment Litigator.”

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Please join GT Labor & Employment Practice Shareholders Jonathan Sulds and Justin Keith Thursday, Sept. 28 at 12 p.m. ET in for a webinar following the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) Aug. 24 decision and new rules that provide workers a path to unionize without holding a vote. The presenters will cover this significant change…

Members of Greenberg Traurig’s Labor & Employment Practice Jonathan L. Sulds and Nicholas A. Corsano co-authored the “USA – New York” section of the Lexology “Getting the Deal Through” “Employment: North America” 2023 guide.

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Overturning five decades of precedent, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board) in Cemex Construction Materials Pacific (372 NLRB No. 130) adopted a new election standard on two key fronts: (1) how may an employer respond to a union’s claim of majority support; and (2) when are employers subject to a…

On Aug. 30, 2023, the WHD of the DOL released a NPRM that proposes to revise the “white collar” overtime exemption regulations applicable to executive, administrative, and professional employees. Most notably, the highly anticipated proposal seeks to raise the salary threshold under which employees are eligible for overtime pay under federal labor law to $1,059…