By B. Alan Matthews March 16, 2022 Ending Forced Arbitration of Sexual Assault and Sexual Harassment Act of 2021.” President Biden signed...

By Paula Jackson Oct. 25, 2021 (Updated Nov. 15, 2021) President Biden recently ordered federal employees and contractors to undergo...

By Paula Jackson October 26, 2021 (revised November 4, 2021) The EEOC recently posted guidance detailing how employers should handle...

By Paula Jackson October 1, 2021 Tennessee employers may assume they are insulated from COVID-19 related claims due to the passage of the...

By Paula Jackson September 20, 2021 The Department of Labor (“DOL”) is rescinding the Rule referred to as the “Joint Employer Status...

By Robert Turner August 20, 2021 On August 17, 2021, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals handed down a decision in Canaday v. The Anthem...

By Paula Jackson August 16, 2021 On August 13, 2021, OSHA revised its guidance for most employers due to the Delta variant of COVID-19...

By Paula Jackson July 30, 2021 Is an employee who requests leave to avoid contracting COVID-19 eligible for FMLA? According to the...

By Paula Jackson July 15, 2021 In April, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) partially implemented a Rule that regulates employers’ ability...

By Paula Jackson June 27, 2021 OSHA’s latest guidance permits most non-healthcare employers to drop mask mandates for fully-vaccinated...

By Nathan Bishop June 7, 2021 Prior to 2018, exemptions to the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) were, in...

By Paula Jackson April 16, 2021 (Updated May 13, 2021) Under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“ARPA”), certain employers can...

By: Paula Jackson April 8, 2021 The American Rescue Plan Act (“ARPA”) mandates that employers or group health plans pay COBRA (or...

By: Debra D. Owen March 30, 2021 By U.S. District Court Order entered March 24, 2021, Cumberland County, Tennessee will pay $1.1 million...

By: Robert Turner March 25, 2021 Remote work has seen a massive acceleration due to the COVID-19 pandemic and does not show any signs of...

By Paula Jackson March 23, 2021 The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (“Act”) mandates that employers or group health plans pay COBRA (or...

By Paula Jackson March 15, 2021 The Tennessee Court of Appeals recently indicated that an employer could be potentially liable for sexual...

By Robert Turner March 1, 2021 Employers have become intimately familiar with the Americans with Disability Act (“ADA”) since its...

By Robert Turner February 24, 2021 The polar vortex that shut down much of the southern United States in February 2021 raised many...

By Paula Jackson February 23, 2021 According to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, employers can potentially terminate employees with...