Why do Human Resources Professionals and Employment Law Attorneys need to worry about antitrust law? I’ll confess it’s not a question that many of us thought we would need to answer. I didn’t take the class on antitrust law in law school. But over the last few years, antitrust law HAS been creeping more and more into the HR area and the latest development should provide a big flashing caution sign to all employers. First,…

The news this week is both positive and negative regarding the COVID-19 virus. The testing numbers on Tuesday in Connecticut were as bad as they’ve been since Spring 2020. If the virus isn’t everywhere, it sure feels that way. But, on the vaccine front, the news is positive. We are moving this week to starting Phase 1B which may be broader than intiially thought. And more doses are arriving every day. For employers, there’s…

Back at the start of 2020, I declined to do my usual prognosticating for the year ahead. That was probably wise given the events of the year. Instead, I quoted a post I did ten years earlier: For employers, there will always been the next case or new law that will need to be tracked and followed, but employers that follow best practices in employment law can worry less about those developments and more about…

Over the last week, while many of us were trying to catch up on our stay-cations,  Congress passed and the President signed The Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Applications Act. It’s a 5,593-page appropriations bill so I’m going to guess that you haven’t read it. Spoiler Alert: Neither have I. But thankfully, my colleagues Jarad Lucan and Sarah Westby have looked into the impact of this new legislation on the paid leave provisions of the…