Cortlin Bond

Jan 10, 2025 | jdsupra.com | Cortlin Bond |John Hargrove |Anne R. Yuengert

With inclement weather, snow flurries, and ice in the forecast, we thought it was best to dust off the old blog post and remind you about best practices to address weather-related issues when paying employees. We hope you all stay warm and safe. As always, your priority should be safety for your employees. Here’s a previously published group of tips on how to deal with paying employees during extreme weather. Winter weather has arrived in the south.

Jan 9, 2025 | natlawreview.com | Cortlin Bond

With inclement weather, snow flurries, and ice in the forecast, we thought it was best to dust off the old blog post and remind you about best practices to address weather-related issues when paying employees. We hope you all stay warm and safe. As always, your priority should be safety for your employees. Here’s a previously published group of tips on how to deal with paying employees during extreme weather. Winter weather has arrived in the south.

Sep 26, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Cortlin Bond |J. William Manuel |Anne R. Yuengert

Here’s a refresher: Discriminating against a subclass of a sex (e.g., older women or black women) is still discrimination. In McCreight v. AuburnBank, the Eleventh Circuit clarified a few things for the lawyers related to the different theories of liability, but the court also provided a good refresher on “sex-plus” discrimination, or discrimination based on a subclass of sex.

Jun 21, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Cortlin Bond |J. William Manuel |Anne R. Yuengert

With the passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA), the law on how you accommodate pregnant workers changed last June, and we blogged about it. Then the EEOC issued extensive regulations last August, and we blogged about that. In every state but Louisiana and Mississippi, those regulations went into full effect on June 18, 2024, so to the extent you are not ready for the PWFA, get ready. The regulations are very long, but here is the EEOC’s Summary of Key Provisions.

Apr 17, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Cortlin Bond |Anne R. Yuengert

It has been a long road to this point, but the final Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) regulations are here. We first blogged in early 2023 about the PWFA, which became effective in June 2023, and again last August when the EEOC published the lengthy draft regulations, and we encouraged you to comment. The EEOC received over 98,000 comments. Clearly, it’s been a hot topic. Finally, after six more months of waiting, the EEOC released its final rule — totaling over 400 pages — on Monday.