OFCCP has published a notice in the Federal Register extending the public comment period on its proposal to require federal contractors to submit an annual certification of their AAP compliance. The new comment deadline is January 28, 2021.
Over the last 18 months or so, companies that utilize fingerprint scanners and other biometric technologies have faced a relentless wave of class action litigation filed in connection with purported violations of Illinois’ Biometric Information Privacy Act (“BIPA”).
On December 23, 2020, the Division of Labor Standards and Statistics in the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (“CDLE”) announced that all Colorado employers must supply up to 80 hours of Public Health Emergency Paid Sick Leave (“PHE leave”) to employees beginning January 1, 2021, pursua
En cette période de pandémie mondiale, si les questions de santé monopolisent une grande partie de notre attention, les changements climatiques n’en demeurent pas moins à l’avant-plan des enjeux avec lesquels les gouvernements, les tribunaux et les entreprises doivent composer.
The American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists (ACGIH®) Threshold Limit Values for Chemical Substances (TLV®-CS) Committee has included carbon nanotubes on its 2021 list of chemical substances and other issues under study.
Seyfarth Synopsis: As previously discussed here, on September 29, 2020, Governor Newsom signed AB 1963, an amendment to the Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act, which will become effective January 1, 2021.
John Jenkins at CorporateCounsel.net recently observed that "companies may want start thinking about including a diversity question on their annual D&Q questionnaires". Constructing such a questionnaire would not seem to be too difficult. Companies can simply list various racial, ethnic, g
