Retail Labor and Employment Law

Retail Labor and Employment Law

News, Updates, and Insights for Retail Employers

Monthly Archives: May 2013

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Retailers Facing Employment Law Vulnerabilities, an interview with EBG attorneys, as appeared in Corporate Counsel

In an article written by Corporate Counsel’s Shannon Green published on May 23, 2013,   Epstein Becker Green labor and employment attorneys, Jeffrey M. Landes and Susan Gross Sholinsky, were interviewed concerning the legal issues that retail industry employers are currently facing.      The interview followed a retail executive roundtable held in EBG’s New York office on May 21, 2013.

Following is an excerpt:

Increased government regulatory activity has been on the minds of most employers for the past several years, and U.S. retailers are no exception. At a roundtable event tailored exclusively to their retail clients, lawyers from Epstein Becker … Continue Reading

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Affordable Care Act: Important Deadline for Employee Notices of the Health Insurance Marketplace (Exchange) Due October 1, 2013

By Gretchen Harders and Michelle Capezza

On May 8, 2013, the Employee Benefits Security Administration of the Department of Labor (the “DOL”) issued Technical Release 2013-02 (the “Release”) providing important guidance under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (the “Affordable Care Act”) with regard to the requirement that employers provide notices to their employees of the existence of the Health Insurance Marketplace, generally referred to previously as the Exchange. These employee notices must be provided to existing employees no later than October 1, 2013. This deadline is … Continue Reading

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Court of Appeals Rules NLRB Notice Posting Violates Employer Free Speech Rights

By Adam C. Abrahms and Steven M. Swirsky

In another major defeat for President Obama’s appointees to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or Board), the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit found that the Board lacked the authority to issue a 2011 rule which would have required all employers covered by the National Labor Relations Act (the “Act”), including those whose employees are not unionized, to post a workplace notice to employees. The putative Notice, called a “Notification of Employee Rights Under the National Labor Relations Act,” is intended to ostensibly inform employees of their rights to … Continue Reading

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New Form I-9 Becomes Effective on May 7, 2013

By: Robert S. Groban, Jr.

On March 8, 2013, the USCIS published a notice in the Federal Register announcing that it had recently revised the Employment Eligibility Verification form (“Form I-9”), and that employers must start using this new form by May 7, 2013.  Employers using prior versions of the Form I-9 on or after May 8, 2013, will violate the law and be subject to worksite enforcement fines and other penalties.

[Excerpt from EBG April 2013 Immigration Alert.  Click here to read the entire Immigration Alert.]… Continue Reading

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