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Client Alerts Employment & Labor Litigation & DisputesSupreme Court Decision On Arbitration Clauses Could Significantly Reduce Employer Exposure to Class Claims

March 16, 2017

By Alicia J. Samolis and Christopher M. Wildenhain Savvy employers always need to be on the look-out for ways to mitigate the ever-growing risks posed by increasingly burdensome state and federal employment laws. Later this year, the U.S. Supreme Court will have the chance to breathe new life into an old, but effective risk-mitigation tool...

Client Alerts Corporate & Business Employment & LaborEmployers thrown curve on new overtime rule

December 2, 2016

If you shared with friends and family around your Thanksgiving table reasons to be grateful this year, here’s one you probably left out: the fact that you aren’t a management-side employment attorney. If you are such a lawyer, you would have spent the past several months getting your clients ready to comply with substantial, looming...

Client Alerts Employment & LaborLooming Effective Dates for New OSHA Recordkeeping Rule: Is Your Company Ready for Public Shaming for Workplace Injuries and OSHA’s Unfettered Oversight of Retaliation Protections?

November 1, 2016

By Alicia J. Samolis Earlier this year the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (“OSHA”) published a new rule that attempts to shame employers into lowering workplace injuries and gives OSHA much broader discretion to regulate retaliation by employers. The rule’s new requirements take effect in the coming months. Changes to OSHA’s Recordkeeping Requirements Require Employers...

Client Alerts Employment & LaborExcluding Pain and Suffering – Trending

August 10, 2016

In the past, we have written about the impact of social and technological trends on the Rhode Island market and economy which eventually influence the law. Indeed, regardless of the form of law—statutory or judicial—neither is immune from these winds of change. In neighboring Massachusetts, a legal development in its workers’ compensation law may make...

Client Alerts Employment & LaborDepartment of Labor Issues Final Changes to the Overtime Law

May 19, 2016

By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli After announcing preliminary proposed rulings in June of 2015, and then receiving over 270,000 comments, the Department announced its Final Rule and final revisions to the Act on May 18, 2016 . Most importantly: The revisions go into effect on December 1, 2016. The minimum salary needed...

Client Alerts Employment & LaborHow Gov’t Contractors Can Avoid Pay Transparency Mishaps

May 4, 2016

By Alicia J. Samolis As seen in the May 4, 2016 edition of Law 360. The final rule implementing Executive Order 13665 (the Pay Transparency Act) went into effect on Jan. 11, 2016. The act prohibits employers from requiring their employees to keep their compensation confidential. Under the new rule, covered employers also can no longer...

Employment & Labor Media Mentions“Employer can’t enforce non-compete vs. doctor.”

April 20, 2016

On April 20, Partridge Snow & Hahn partner, Michael Gamboli, was quoted in a RI Lawyers Weekly article titled “Employer can’t enforce non-compete vs. doctor.” The article details a Superior Court Judge’s decision to not allow a health care provider to enforce a non-competition agreement with a physician who left to work elsewhere. Subscribers of the publication...

Client Alerts Employment & LaborYour Recently Updated Handbook May Violate the Law

February 29, 2016

As seen in the February 29, 2016 edition of the Providence Business News. With the close of the first quarter of 2016 on the horizon, employers tend to be in two camps with respect to their employee handbooks – those who have not revised their handbooks for 2016 and those who have. For those in the...

Client Alerts Employment & LaborOutsmart the Pending Changes to the Overtime Law with Advance Planning

November 15, 2015

By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli In June we alerted you to the fact that the Department of Labor (“DOL”) was planning to increase the minimum weekly salary an employee must be paid in order to qualify for an exemption from overtime. Since that time, the DOL has published a proposed rule increasing the...

Client Alerts Employment & LaborRI Employers (Large and Small) Required to Accommodate Healthy Pregnant Workers and New Moms. No, FMLA Leave is Not Enough.

August 15, 2015

By Alicia J. Samolis Last month, the Rhode Island Fair Employment Practices Act was amended to require employers with 4 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodations to employees and prospective employees with a “condition”. Such accommodations include, but are not limited to, more frequent or longer breaks, time off to recover from childbirth, acquisition or...

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