OFCCP Director Update: Yang Replaces Leen as the New Director

The decision this week of the Supreme Court of the United States in Epic Systems Corporation v. Lewis will likely prove important on issues other than the arbitration of labor disputes.

We reported on the New York Wage Theft Prevention Act in our special January 21, 2011 issue of the New Jersey eAuthority and noted that the law went into effect on April 12, 2011. The New York Department of Labor has since clarified that the actual effective date for the Act is Saturday, April 9, 2011. The confusion evidently arose from the fact that Governor David Paterson first signed the bill on December 10, 2010, three days before he signed the bill again in a public ceremony on December 13, 2010.

Each year we review the validity of mandatory flu vaccinations. It is usually in the context of health care organizations, as few other employers have had the same need. In the last few years, the analysis has remained the same: (1) what is the justification (often, employee and patient safety); (2) will there be medical and/or religious exemptions; and, if so, (3) what is the accommodation (it has generally been wearing a mask all times at work).