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Supreme Court Agrees To Wade Into Class Action Waiver Conflict

by Fisher Phillips in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Legal, Lodging. Posted January 20, 2017

In a widely expected move, the U.S. Supreme Court just agreed to settle a dispute about whether employers can use mandatory class action waivers with their workers. The decision, which should be issued by June 2017, will provide clarity to a topic that has become increasingly muddled over the past year. Employers will spend the ...

Medical Marijuana and the Workplace

by Heidi Quan in Human Resources, Legal. Posted November 7, 2016

Dazed and Confused: How Upcoming Ballot Measures and Cases of Interest Continue to Change the Legal Landscape around Marijuana California’s Compassionate Use Act (CUA) of 1996 decriminalized the use of marijuana for medicinal purposes. However, it did not legalize marijuana. It only shields medical users and caregivers from criminal liability. Recently, Governor Brown signed into ...

New IRS Safe Harbors for Publicly-Financed Properties Help Hotel Industry

by Thomson Reuters in Hotel Development, Lodging. Posted November 2, 2016

The IRS recently issued new guidance on safe harbor provisions in management contracts for publicly-owned, bond-financed properties. These safe harbor provisions affect a variety of real estate assets including hotels and other privately managed public properties. On August 22, 2016, the IRS issued Revenue Procedure 2016-44, which provides new guidance on safe harbor provisions for management ...

Social Media Policies Help Limit Liability

by Michelman Robinson in Hotel Development, Human Resources, Lodging. Posted October 11, 2016

A thorough policy helps define what your employees can and can’t say about the company on social channels. As a hotel executive, imagine that one of the managers you oversee shares that an employee is disparaging you and the company on Twitter. You jump online to find a member of your staff posted the following ...

On the Sideboard: Tip Deductions, Side Work, and Meal Credits

by Fisher Phillips in Food & Beverage, Legal. Posted August 22, 2016

by Wendy McGuire Coats and Rochelle Nelson What kinds of employment-related issues are other restaurants facing? Here’s a quick look this summer’s court activity. No Deductions in Tips for Cash Deliveries. A restaurant chain came under fire for violating federal wage and hour laws by deducting cash handling fees from its employee’s tips. The restaurant ...

Accommodating Transgender Guests in Hotel Restrooms, Locker Rooms Is a Balancing Act

by Fisher Phillips in Human Resources, Legal, Lodging, Travel. Posted August 5, 2016

If you work in the hospitality industry, you no doubt realize that for all of the hotel rooms around the globe, there is no room for discrimination. Claims of bias can have devastating consequences on a brand as well as rippling economic effects. To put that into perspective, the NBA’s recent decision to pull its ...

Time to Act – Employers Have Fewer than Six Months to Comply With New Federal Overtime Exemption Rule

by Buchalter in Human Resources, Legal. Posted July 13, 2016

By: Paul Bressan and Ruth Seroussi On May 18, 2016, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced its much-anticipated final overtime exemption rule under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), as tasked to do by President Obama in 2014. The DOL received more than 270,000 comments since it published its Notice of Proposed Rule ...

New Payday Options for Making Ends Meet

by NY Times in Human Resources. Posted July 6, 2016

by Stacy Cowley For decades, most American companies have paid their workers once every week or two, minimizing the administrative costs of frequent paydays and maximizing the interest the companies earn by keeping the money in the bank. And for equally long, workers have complained about the unfairness of waiting for their paychecks. But now, ...

Minimum “Exempt” Salary Threshold Raised and Millions of Additional Workers Entitled to Overtime

by Bennett Pine in Human Resources. Posted July 6, 2016

On May 18, 2016, President Obama and the Labor Department issued the much anticipated final rule regarding overtime regulations, which significantly raises the minimum salary threshold required to qualify for “white collar exemptions” under the Fair Labor Standards Act. These new Department of Labor Overtime Rules may be of particular interest to businesses in the ...

Webinar: Non-Violent Confrontation Management (NVCM) Overview

by AFIMAC Global in Human Resources. Posted June 29, 2016

Date: Thursday, July 7, 2016Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm ESTCost: FREESpeaker: Rob Shuster, VP Protective Services and Training, AFIMAC GlobalStephen Barth, Attorney and Founder, HospitalityLawyer.com Yes, I would like to attend Webinar Outline This webinar will focus on verbal and nonverbal tools to handle confrontational exchanges with agitated people. We will review the stages of how ...

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