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Winter Is Coming…So What Should Employers Do To Prepare?

by Fisher Phillips in Human Resources, Legal, Safety & Security. Posted November 15, 2018

As readers of epic fantasy novels and viewers of a certain cable TV-show know all too well, winter is most definitely coming. Your radio is already playing holiday music, the shiny decorations are already out in malls and retail stores, and your coffee shop is serving you drinks in red cups. The signs are obvious, ...

Lasting Effects of the #MeToo Movement

by Beeta Lashkari in Human Resources, Legal. Posted November 13, 2018

It has been about a year since the #MeToo movement went viral, spreading greater awareness about sexual misconduct and harassment, and, more generally, the role of women, in the workplace. So, where are we now, and has anything changed? Was it just an awareness movement? Or, have things actually started to shift in the legal ...

Legal Issues in the Hospitality Sector

by Cassie Steele in Human Resources, Legal, Lodging. Posted November 1, 2018

The Hospitality Sector has many unique legal issues, and the number of crimes involving Hospitality Laws continues to rise. There were 2656 hotel crimes committed in New York in 2017 alone. Hotels and bars restaurants are the two most common sites of hospitality crimes. Legal issues in the hospitality sector most often involve the theft ...

I-9 Audits On The Rise- ICE Increasing Worksite Enforcement Audits By 400%

by Eileen Momblanco in Human Resources, Legal. Posted September 22, 2018

In July 2018, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced that in the last six months, it issued 5,200 notices of inspection to employers in the U.S. in order to audit their Form I-9 Employment Eligibility Verification documents. This is a significant increase compared to only 1,360 audits initiated in all of the last ...

TABC Legal Services Division to Host Continuing Education for Alcohol Industry Attorneys

by admin in Food & Beverage, Legal. Posted September 20, 2018

The Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s Legal Services Division will host a free Continuing Legal Education (CLE) session highlighting some of the most common issues and questions related to upholding the Alcoholic Beverage Code. TABC will host the program on September 25 at the agency’s Austin headquarters, 5806 Mesa Drive, and the event is open to ...

EEOC Lawsuit Push Takes Aim At Hospitality Employers

by Andria Ryan in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Legal, Lodging. Posted September 18, 2018

In the first half of August 2018 alone, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed 16 lawsuits against employers—and hospitality employers should be especially wary about this surge of litigation, as several claims took direct aim at businesses in the industry. Harassment Claims Continue To Capture Spotlight In light of the sexual abuse allegations ...

Knowing Water Freezes Does NOT Mean Defendant Should Foresee that Water Will Freeze at a Certain Location

by Brian Cafritz in Insurance & Loss Prevention, Legal. Posted September 11, 2018

Businesses can control many factors on their property, but they cannot control the weather or alter the laws of physics. Water freezes at 32°F. Ice is slippery. Everybody knows the basic facts of the physical properties of water and ice. Among attorneys, there’s another equally well-known fact: Whenever a plaintiff slips and falls on ice—whether ...

Five Tips for Protecting Your Company’s Trade Secrets

by David Barron in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Insurance & Loss Prevention, Legal. Posted September 6, 2018

Protecting your trade secrets and proprietary information is a vital part of your business. Every company needs to have policies and agreements in place to prevent employees from stealing property, and wrongfully soliciting your employees and customers when they leave to work for a competitor. Equally important, you must ensure that newly hired employees understand ...

Court Finds that Restaurant Complied with California Law by Requiring Employees Purchasing Discounted Meals to Eat their Meals on Premises

by Megan Shaked in Food & Beverage, Legal. Posted August 28, 2018

In California, generally an employer may not employ a non-exempt employee for a work period of more than five hours per day without providing the employee with a meal period that may be taken off the premises. Yet, in the restaurant industry employers often provide employees free or discounted meals to be eaten on the ...

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