As many employers implement a COVID-19 vaccination-or-weekly-testing mandate (soon to be required of all employers with 100+ employees, as we discussed here), a recurring issue is whether the time that employees spend getting that weekly test must be paid under federal and state wage and hours laws.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission recently issued its final regulations to interpret and implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), which already went into effect last summer. These regulations go
On May 2, 2024, Shawe Rosenthal Partners Fiona Ong and Parker Thoeni, along with Andrew Griffin, Senior Vice President of Government Affairs, Maryland Chamber of Commerce, presented Complying with Maryland's
Teresa Teare presented a session on “Hot Topics in Employment Law for Women Attorneys” at the Women’s Bar Association of Maryland’s annual conference on April 19, 2024.
On March 29, 2024, Fiona Ong participated on a panel jointly sponsored by Princeton University’s Asian American Students Association and the Asian American Alumni Association of Princeton to speak to
Fiona Ong, Mark Swerdlin, and Shawe Rosenthal summer clerk Donald Waldron authored an article, “What to Expect from Maryland Paid Family and Medical Leave Program,” published in Vol. 5, Issue
Teresa Teare and Darryl McCallum recently spoke at the Maryland State Bar Association Labor & Employment Section’s bi-annual Employment Law Institute (ELI) on April 16, 2024, in Columbia, MD. The
Teresa Teare was quoted in a April 25, 2024 Daily Record article by Rachel Konieczny, “MD employment law practitioners, organizations mixed on FTC noncompete ban.” (Subscription required for access). Teresa
Fiona Ong and Jamie Salazer authored an article, “Are Employers Liable for Take-Home COVID-19 Claims?”, which was published in Vol. 53, No. 1 of The Brief, a publication of the
Fiona Ong has once again been recognized by Lexology as its “Legal Influencer” for U.S. – Employment, most recently for Q1 2024. Lexology publishes in excess of 450 legal articles