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Avid readers of Stokes Wagner’s legal updates may be familiar with California’s Assembly Bill 51, a law that, until very recently, prohibited California employers from requiring...
A Stokes Wagner lawyer who teaches at Cornell's School of Hotel Administration testified for the San Francisco Marriott on Wednesday at the close of a bench trial over claims that the hotel improperly withheld banquet bill "service charges" from servers, saying hospitality professionals have never seen the charge as a gratuity.
Employers who use biometric technology in the workplace should be aware of the developing trend towards legislation targeting the misuse of biometric information. Biometric technology,...
Following the legal challenges facing OSHA’s Emergency Temporary Standard mandating vaccinations, Florida passed legislation banning private employers from mandating COVID-19 vaccines...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: On December 16, 2020, the EEOC updated its COVID-19 guidance to include guidelines pertaining to mandatory vaccinations in the workplace. The EEOC stated that the administration of the COVID-19 vaccination is not a “medical examination” under the ADA, and thus private employers may require employees to be vaccinated as a condition to continued employment, or, at the very least, as a condition to returning to the workplace. Employers who decide to implement a mandatory vaccination policy must allow for employees with certain medi...