Labor & Employment Law Update

For more than half a century, the law has been clear that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 has prohibited employers from discriminating against employees on the basis of sex.  The statutory language, however, does not specifically include, reference, or otherwise address sexual orientation or gender identity […]

Effective today, May 1, 2020, all employers are required to begin using the newest version of the Form I-9. A copy of the Form, both electronic and printable formats, is located on I-9 Central, which is a part of the US Citizenship and Immigration Service website. Be sure to access […]

As waves of employees across the nation are staying home from work to combat the spread of COVID-19, many are doing so on an unpaid basis.  This week, both Iowa and Nebraska announced unemployment insurance relief for both employees and employers amid the COVID-19 crisis. Generally, to qualify for unemployment […]

On March 11, amid growing concerns surrounding the 2019 Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19), the IRS published relief for high deductible health plans (HDHP) and health savings accounts (HSA).  The IRS’s relief provides that a high deductible health plan (HDHP) that is otherwise qualified under the Internal Revenue Code will continue to […]

We hope President Trump was correct when he stated last evening during his press conference that a Coronavirus pandemic is “not imminent.”  But after listening to officials from the Centers for Disease Control (“CDC”) and reading in-between the President’s lines, it certainly sounds as though a Coronavirus pandemic in the […]