Covid Vaccine Incentives: Business Organizations Ask EEOC to Clarify Some employers are offering incentives to their employees to get them to take the COVID-19 vaccination.  These incentives range from cash payments to paid time off.   However, some...

Dozens of Utah Educators Hired Without Full Employee Background Checks The Utah State Board of Education has revealed that an employee’s data entry mistakes resulted in failure to properly perform pre-employment background check on potential...

Washington Supreme Court Drug Ruling Adds Uncertainty to Employee Background Checks Employers face ambiguity as Washington State allows the use of heroin, Meth, and other drugs with no criminal repercussions. Many wonder how this will affect drugs...

California Court Upholds Covid-19 Workplace Rule Requiring Coronavirus Testing & Sick Pay On Thursday, Judge Ethan Schulman, a San Francisco Superior Court judge, upheld the COVID-19 emergency workplace regulations for California, to reduce transmission...

COVID-19 Pushes Need For Cloud-Based HR Software HR leader Jennie Knowles, SHRM-CP and head of human resources at Sendoso, an online marketing and promotional campaigning company based in San Francisco, expects that the COVID-19 pandemic will continue...

New Jersey’s New Recreational Marijuana Laws For Employers New Jersey has signed into law the New Jersey Cannabis Regulatory, Enforcement Assistance, and Marketplace Modernization Act (CREAMMA). This law, among other things, prohibits employers...

Illinois Gymnastics Coach Admits To Sexually Assaulting Children  A Sycamore, Illinois Gymnastics school coach, has been sentenced to 32 years in prison after submitting a guilty plea. The defendant Joseph R. Hannon plead guilty to sexually assaulting...

Understanding the EEOC Covid Vaccine Guidelines for Your Company COVID-19 has changed the entire workforce in less than one year. There are hundreds of thousands of people out of work, and even more now working from home. We are still trying to get...