Many employers implement drug-free workplace policies. Often they invoke the federal Drug-Free Workplace Act in doing so. But only a subset of U.S. employers is subject to that law. Here we’ll examine what this law actually requires and consider what it doesn’t directly address. Covered Employers The Drug-Free Workplace Act of 1988 only applies to federal …
On March 14, 2018, NLRB General Counsel Peter Robb issued a memorandum in response to questions and concerns raised at the Midwinter Meeting of the American Bar Association’s Practice and Procedure Under the National Labor Relations Act Committee of the Labor and Employment Law Section. This is an annual tradition for the General Counsel of the …
Most employers know they can’t discriminate against employees based on the employees’ own legally protected characteristics. But they may not realize that the same laws often also prohibit “association discrimination,” or “relationship discrimination.” In other words, employers can’t discriminate based on an individual’s association with someone in a protected class. Forms of Association Discrimination The …
