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On September 23, 2020, attorneys at McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP filed a Complaint in the Eastern District of North Carolina on behalf of a federal corrections officer at FCC Butner in North Carolina, against the United States and the US Department of Justice, Bureau of Prisons.

During the 2020 legislative session, the Maryland General Assembly amended the state’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act to address the gender wage gap resulting from an applicant’s salary history. The amendments, which take effect on October 1, 2020, provide additional protections for applicants and employees and create new obligations for employers.

On September 8, 2020, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) updated its guidance on reasonable accommodations available to disabled workers in today’s pandemic-influenced workplace.

As Election Day rapidly approaches, many workers are speaking out on issues important to them and their communities. While these conversations are undoubtedly critical to our democratic process, workers should still be cautious of the impact of their political activities on their employment.

As many employers consider COVID-19 screening and testing for employees, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) recently released guidance regarding testing in the workplace. The EEOC advises that employers utilizing COVID-19 screenings should rely on the CDC and other public health authorities when asking employees about possible COVID-19 symptoms that they are experiencing.

In a rebuke to the large companies that fought hard to change the Department of Labor’s joint employer regulation to evade their responsibility to ensure that workers are paid the minimum wages and overtime to which they are entitled, a federal judge ruled that several provisions of the revised regulation, issued in January 2020, were illegal.

The Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a revised Final Rule, effective on September 16, addressing a federal court ruling in August that its Final Rule implementing the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (“FFCRA”) exceeded its authority.

Gregory McGillivary, the managing partner at McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP, has been awarded the recognition of ‘Best Lawyer for Employment Law – Individuals’ for the 2021 Best Lawyer rankings.

As the Department of Labor has recently highlighted, that is a very important question for determining when employees are owed overtime.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (“OSHA”), which has recommended that workers wear cloth face coverings to prevent the spread of COVID-19, said on July 31, 2020, that cloth face coverings won’t hinder oxygen levels or cause an unhealthy buildup of carbon dioxide.