As COVID fears have eased and Zoom fatigue has grown, the road warriors have re-emerged.  In-person meetings with clients and customers and work and industry conferences are back in vogue.  And with those meetings come the perennial questions about when…

Workplace romances can emerge between colleagues in the same department, between managers and subordinates, between employees with no commonality other than their lunch hour, and between an employee and an important third party (a customer contact, a vendor, etc.). Ideally,…

The fiscal year 2025 H-1B lottery registration process opens on March 6, 2024, and will remain open through March 22, 2024.  The lottery allocates approximately 85,000 H-1B visas to specialty occupation foreign workers.  The U.S. Department of Homeland Security recently…

This is the second installment of a two-part series on little-known FMLA facts. The prior installment covered under-utilized FMLA tools. This segment covers FMLA traps that can catch even experienced HR personnel.Lesser-Known FMLA Trap #1: Missed In Loco Parentis Family…

This is the first installment of a two-part series on little-known FMLA facts. Today’s installment covers under-utilized FMLA tools. Our next installment covers FMLA traps. Under-utilized FMLA Tool #1: Using FMLA While I get questions across the full spectrum of…

California Ups The AnteAlways in the vanguard of the anti-restrictive covenant movement, California implemented two new laws impacting non-competes in 2023.  Under California law, it was already well-established that non-compete agreements were unenforceable.  To take it a step further, the…