It’s time to sign up for the 2019 H-2A Roundtable Sessions! This year’s Roundtable sessions will be held in multiple locations and the Santa Maria session will be presented in both English and Spanish. These sessions are offered at no cost to members of participating organizations including Western Growers but RSVP is required. Wage and ...
In a victory for employers, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Wednesday in Lamps Plus, Inc. v. Varela that courts cannot order an arbitration to be conducted on a class-wide basis unless there is an arbitration agreement that expressly authorizes class arbitration. In 2016, a hacker tricked an employee of Lamps Plus, Inc., into disclosing tax ...
As discussed here and here, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has confirmed that EEO-1 filers should begin preparing to submit employee pay data (Component 1) for calendar year 2018 by September 30, 2019, in light of the court’s recent decision in National Women’s Law Center, et al., v. Office of Management and Budget, et ...
The Agricultural Personnel Management Association (APMA) will be offering a labor and employment law course on April 17, 2019, in Santa Maria, Calif. This session will provide an overview of the California and Federal labor and employment laws affecting agriculture, including wage and hour, harassment and discrimination, farm labor contractor regulation, union organizing and mandatory ...
Social Security No-Match Letters Are Back The Social Security Administration (SSA) has once again begun sending Social Security no-match letters to employers. The notice, titled SSA Retirement, Survivors and Disability Insurance Employer Correction Request, notifies the recipient that the employer reported X number of employee names and Social Security Numbers (SSN) on Form W-2 for ...