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The Supreme Court issued its ruling in Groff v. DeJoy on Thursday, June 29th, 2023, invalidating the widely accepted standard of “undue hardship” that is applied when an employer is evaluating a requested religious accommodation. ...
In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled on an issue that represented the intersection of public accommodation anti-discrimination laws with Free Speech in the First Amendment. The Court held that ...
Last summer, we wrote about the Bloomington Sick and Safe Leave Ordinance and its requirements. The Ordinance goes into effect in just a few days, July 1, 2023. Existing paid time off programs can satisfy ...
As we previously reported, the Minnesota Legislature passed numerous changes to Minnesota employment laws, including paid sick leave, paid family leave, and much more. One overlooked change included in the 274-page omnibus jobs bill (SF ...
The Minnesota Court of Appeals issued four important decisions on June 12, 2023—one precedential and three nonprecedential—which provide valuable guidance to employers and employees regarding religious belief exemption denials and unemployment benefits. In its precedential ...
Earlier this week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a decision in The Atlanta Opera, Inc., 372 NLRB No. 95 (2023), modifying its approach for assessing whether workers are employees covered by the National ...
In a memo released on May 30, National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) General Counsel Jennifer Abruzzo dealt another blow to noncompete agreements. With the newly passed Minnesota ban set to go into effect on July ...
Recently, we have covered major legislation that was passed by the Minnesota legislature, including Statewide Paid Family and Medical Leave, Statewide Paid Sick Leave, a non-compete ban, and much more. While those pieces of legislation ...
