Aug 15, 2023 First EEOC Settlement on AI Bias in Hiring Software By Manori de Silva A company providing software using artificial intelligence ("AI") to hire language tutors will pay $365,000 to job candidates to settle a...
Jun 30, 2023 SCOTUS Decision Impacts Employer's Duty to Accommodate Religious Beliefs By Manori de Silva The Supreme Court held yesterday in a 9-0 unanimous decision that an employer must show that granting an employee's religious...
May 15, 2023 Myth: You Don't Have to Pay Overtime If You Pay a Salary By Manori de Silva One of the most commonly-encountered myths I come across in talking to my clients is the mistaken belief that paying a fixed salary...
Apr 14, 2023 Why an Accurate List of Your Corporate Officers Matters By Manori de Silva The high profile Dominion v Fox case* is showing how important the mundane issue of corporate housekeeping can be, and how important it...
Apr 10, 2023 3 Reasons Why Your Post-Pandemic Company Should Have a Handbook By Manori de Silva During the pandemic, remote working became normalized and employment laws continued to evolve. All of this has impacted business owners....
Jul 20, 2022 An Ode to the Young - What Businesses Risk Losing if They Fail to Listen to Today's Youth By Manori de Silva Millennials (those born after 1984) and even younger generations make up more than half of Americans. Millennials will soon be the...
Jul 18, 2022 Conversations with TED: The 4 Day Work Week By Manori de Silva Gail Holtzman In this episode of Conversations with TED, we discuss the timely topic of a 4 day work week. As labor and employment practitioners, we...
Apr 03, 2022 Should You Offer a 4-Day Week to Employees? By Manori de Silva The pandemic triggered a discussion about shorter work weeks. Numerous industrialized nations have already experimented with the 4-day...
Mar 18, 2022 Putin's Frosty Reception is a Lesson for Corporate Leaders By Manori de Silva Without in any way trying to compare the devastation of war to the ups and downs of business life, the frosty welcome that Putin received...
Mar 15, 2022 Changes to Unemployment Assistance Under the American Rescue Plan Act By Manori de Silva President Biden signed the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARP”) into law on March 11, 2021. ARP provides “Crisis Support for...
Mar 09, 2022 How Ukraine Will Affect U.S. Return-to-Office Policies By Manori de Silva We do not know when or how the war in Ukraine will end. In the meantime, gas prices are up. U.S. employers and institutions have started...
Jan 31, 2022 The Discrimination Landmine of Ditching Your Landline By Manori de Silva Some businesses, including restaurants, are giving up their landlines. But could this expose them to federal disability discrimination...