A recently passed California law will force employers to post the salary range for any new job position with the goal of making the workplace more equitable. The law, which Gov. Gavin Newsome signed into place on September 27, 2022, will take effect on January 1, 2023.According to the law, any company in California with more than 15 employees must publish a salary range on any new job listing they post. Sen. Monique Limón (D-Goleta), who wrote...
Maritime crewmembers have certain rights under Federal law designed to protect them from unfair treatment by vessel owners. Vessel owners in this sense could refer to the owner of a particular ship or the controlling entity of a whole line of vessels, such as a cruise line. Regardless, crewmembers are legally protected from unfair termination and retaliation by their own specific set of laws.
The laws that govern crewmember treatment and...
Depuy Orthopedics issued a worldwide recall of its metal-on-metal SR XL Acetabular System for Total Hip Replacement as well as the ASR Hip Resurfacing. A division of Johnson & Johnson, this company issued a statement admitting that more patients than expected experienced pain and other symptoms requiring a second hip replacement surgery, and therefore the company was recalling the product until they could work out the kinks to make it safer...
Amusement parks are required to follow strict safety regulations to ensure that visitors to the park remain safe for the duration of their time there. However, when an injury does occur, liability could fall on multiple parties. While the amusement park owner is typically responsible for maintaining safe conditions and ensuring proper safety training for staff members, amusement park staff are also required to individually follow safety...
As unemployment benefits designed specifically for the COVID pandemic began drawing to a close, workers who had yet to receive benefits due to a backlog in the system as well as those who remain unemployed quickly filed suit in multiple states including Ohio, Oklahoma, Indiana, Maryland, and Texas. The Biden administration responded by extending the deadline for pandemic unemployment benefits in some places to September 6th, 2021, although some...
As the world slowly begins to settle into a new kind of normal, workers that remain unemployed following the pandemic have expressed alarm at the fact that COVID-19 unemployment benefits are set to end on Saturday, July 3rd. The Unemployed Workers Union responded to this impending change by filing a class action lawsuit against Maryland’s state labor secretary and Governor Larry Hogan.
The lawsuit seeks to ensure people receive the benefits...
Like any business, a law firm’s brand should be central to their marketing strategy. Without a strong, well-defined brand, it can be hard to know where to start, and marketing can feel daunting. The good news is that defining a law firm’s brand isn’t particularly hard; it just takes sitting down and thinking about what makes your firm different, be it the attorneys’ values, strengths, experience, etc.
Without a strong brand, it may...
In May of 2021, Indiana University issued a requirement that all students must receive a COVID-19 vaccination before returning to campus. Some students took issue with this requirement, resulting in a 55 page lawsuit alleging that the university’s new requirement violated both the U.S. Constitution and the State’s earlier ruling prohibiting the use of “vaccine passports” to indicate or prove a person’s vaccination status.
Indiana...