All employers covered by Wisconsin’s Unemployment Insurance law are required to display the Notice to Employees about Applying for Wisconsin Unemployment Insurance where employees can easily read it. If employers do not have a permanent work site regularly accessed by employees, a copy of the notice must be provided to each employee. The Notice to Read more
On March 24, 2016, Austin became the latest city to approve the Fair Chance Hiring Ordinance also known as “Ban the Box” law. The law applies to employers with at least 15 employees for each working day in each of 20 or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year. Under the Ordinance, Read more
Last year, the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) updated the rules for reporting severe injuries and illnesses. The federal rules require employers to report all in-patient hospitalizations, amputations, and losses of an eye to OSHA within 24 hours of learning about it. By law, the states that operate under OSHA-approved State Plans are Read more
Caregivers in the city of New York will soon be protected employees under the New York City Human Rights Law. Starting May 4, 2016, employees with four or more employees are prohibited to discriminate based on an individual’s actual or perceived status as a caregiver. Employers cannot refuse to hire, reject, exclude, terminate, demote, refuse Read more
