As employers seek greater inclusion in the workplace, they have struggled with how to report non-binary gender on the EEO-1 form, which does not include such an option. TheU.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has recently answered, in an...

The Department of Labor (DOL) issued an opinion letter on August 8, 2019 in response to whether or not an employee may take leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to attend a Committee on Special Education (CSE) meeting to discuss their...

The federal government's Form I-9, used by HR departments across the country to verify workers' employment eligibility, is expiring at the end of the month on 8/31/2019.In March 2019, the USCIS published a Notice in the Federal Register proposing an...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has recently issued three new opinion letters that address common questions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).  While the opinion letters address specific situations that are not applicable to every business, they...

Virginia has a new law that went into effect July 1, 2019, regarding employee access to personnel records.  The Virginia law is a first of its kind, but more and more states are adopting such statutes.  Laws requiring access to personnel documents vary by...