Legislation Proposes Measures to Provide New Jersey’s Unemployed On-The-Job Training and to Handle Every Aspect of Their Unemployment Claims Online

Happy Nails & Spa of Fashion Valley, LP, v. Julie Su, No. D060621 (July 19, 2013): A California Court of Appeal recently held that an employer does not have to relitigate the issue of whether the workers at its facilities are employees or independent contractors based on the legal principle of collateral estoppel, since the

Yesterday, President George Bush signed into law the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 which includes two provisions that expand the benefits of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to assist service members and their families. One provision requires employers with 50 or more employees to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave a year for a “qualifying exigency” connected to the active duty status of an employee’s spouse, son, daughter or parent (“active duty leave”).

On May 7, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board issued a decision that will be welcomed by employers desiring to maintain differences in the benefits provided to their union and nonunion employees.