HR Hot Topic Seminar - Recent Changes to the Employment Law Landscape

Presented by Tillman Coffey of Fisher & Phillips LLC
Recent Changes to the Employment Law Landscape

A number of government agencies and the Courts  have picked up the ball and have changed and attempted to expand the reach of a number of existing laws. The Department of Labor is in the process of changing the rules on what it takes to be exempt under the "white collar" exemptions of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is pursuing sexual orientation and gender identity claims based on the premise that both types of discrimination are forms of sex discrimination under Title VII of the Civil Rights of 1964. The National Relations Labor Board continues to interpret the NLRA to prohibit employers from having certain policies and rules that not so long ago were considered appropriate. And, there's more....