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SHLC attorneys, law clerks and spouses met in Las Vegas Sept. 12-13 to welcome employment law attorney Charity Felts to the firm.  A formal announcement by the firm will be made soon. In the photo above: Bottom row from left – Bill and Charity Felts, Jared and Heather Hague, Kelly and Brady Briggs; Top row from left – Sandra Garcia, […]

On August 14, 2015 a Nevada District Court (Carson City) held that employers must pay the top tier of the state minimum wage (currently $8.25) unless an employee actually accepts the health insurance offered by the employer and, further, that employers may not consider tips or gratuities as employee income in determining whether or not the employer-provided health insurance is […]

On August 27, 2015, in a highly anticipated and controversial decision, the National Labor Relations Board announced its standard for determining whether companies that utilize contract labor are “joint employers” with the duty to negotiate with their contract workers’ labor unions. The contractor, Browning-Ferris Industries of California (BFI), partially staffed its recycling plants with workers provided under a contract with […]

On August 11, 2015, SHLC held a special webinar featuring the Nevada Labor Commissioner Shannon Chambers. Commissioner Chambers was appointed in December 2014. She has fifteen years of combined legal and administrative experience in public sector employment and extensive knowledge of state government and the legislative process. In the SHLC webinar, Commissioner Chambers discussed many legal issues currently facing Nevada […]

On July 22, 2015, the California Supreme Court asked the California Labor Commissioner’s Office for guidance on how to interpret the sections of the Industrial Welfare Commission Orders (“Wage Orders”) requiring employers to provide all working employees with suitable seats when the nature of the work reasonably permits the use of seats.  The Court requested that the Labor Commissioner provide […]

Two cases recently decided by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) provide insight into an employer’s ability to terminate an employee for using vulgar, offensive, or even threatening language in relation to union organizing activities.  In the first case, Pier Sixty, LLC. and Hernan Perez (“Pier Sixty”), decided March 31, 2015, the NLRB found that the employer had wrongfully terminated […]

Bill Gives Employers Greater Options, Changes to Take Immediate Effect The rules for mandatory Paid Sick Leave (“PSL”) in California have once again changed. Yesterday, Governor Brown signed into law AB 304, a bill to amend the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014, less than two weeks after the original PSL law went into full effect. The bill passed […]

A Federal judge in New York ruled on June 2, 2015, that an employee can bring a lawsuit against an employer who fails to provide the requisite lactation accommodations mandated in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) as modified by the Affordable Care Act. Such accommodations for employees are not only required by the federal FLSA, they are also […]

In its July 2, 2015 monthly webinar, Sutton Hague Law Corporation conducted a mid-year review of changes in the law pertaining to Nevada employers. Topics covered in the webinar included the new proposed changes to federal overtime regulations, gender neutral bathrooms in the workplace, religious accommodations, independent contractors, and new National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) rulings. Department of Labor’s Proposed […]

During its July 1, 2015 California webinar, Sutton Hague Law Corporation provided a mid-year review of changes and recent trends in the law that will affect California employers. Of particular concern to employers were the new California Mandatory Paid Sick Leave law and recent changes to the California Family Rights Act, both of which went into effect July 1, 2015 […]