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Kim Stuart will be speaking on November 14, 2022 at this quality-centric learning experience for Licensed Home and Community Support Services Agencies (HCSSAs) and professionals involved in the provision of home health, hospice, personal assistant or habilitation services as well as others specialized in home care services. More information may be obtained at https://l.feathr.co/ks-admin
Employers need to be aware of and insure to update policies and contracts because of two developments in sexual harassment law. First, as of September 1, 2021, Texas law expands the definition of an employer for sexual harassment in Texas, extends the statute of limitations to report a claim, and establishes a new standard for […]
HR Houston is Delivering Legal News at Lightning Speed on Thursday from 12-6:30. LEGALkwik is a half-day program featuring 13 short power-packed presentations by leading employment law experts. Our very own, Kim Stuart will be speaking on the topic of To Arbitrate or Not To Arbitrate—That’s NOT the only question. For more information or to attend: https://www.hrhouston.org/events/EventDetails.aspx…
THE WAITING IS OVER NEW FLSA OVERTIME REGS EFFECTIVE JANUARY 2, 2020 Three years after its initial release of final rulemaking that would have raised salary basis thresholds, making approximately 1.3 million employees, according to DOL, eligible for overtime. DOL announced today that those rules will finally take effect on January 1, 2020. Here is […]
DOL Addresses and Confirms Software Based Rounding Policy You Spin Me Right Round, Baby Few employees ever clock in or out exactly on the hour. Therefore, employers using time clocks or time clock software face each payroll period with the task of computing regular and overtime pay based upon the time worked according to punched […]
Sick and Tired of being Sick and Tired? Your employer will have to pay you for it in San Antonio and Dallas. The Texas Legislature failed to pass legislation in the current session that would have stopped implementation of the San Antonio and Dallas Paid Sick Leave ordinances set to take effect on August 1, […]
Prepare For Another Wild Ride Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued an Order on April 25, 2019 setting the new EEO-1 pay data deadlines for employers and setting the EEOC on course to notifications, deadlines for data collection and reporting1. Employers need to keep hands and […]
Announcing the selection of Kimberly R. Stuart among America’s Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators® for 2019. Selection to America’s Top 100 Civil Defense Litigators® is by invitation only and is reserved to identify most exceptional Civil Defense Litigators in throughout the nation. Kimberly practices appellate law, commercial litigation and employment and labor law. She knows that the […]
Late on the night of March 4, 2019, Judge Tanya S. Chutkan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a 42-page opinion in National Women’s Law Center v. OMB reviving the revised EEO-1 which requires employers with 100 or more employees (federal contractors with 50 or more) to include pay data. The next […]
Attorney Shareholder Kim Stuart summarizes the current trends involving independent contractor status. On July 13, 2018, the Trump administration issued its first guidance on its views on independent contractors when it issued a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) entitled “Determining whether Nurse or Caregiver Registries Are Employers of the Caregiver.” The FAB, though the first substantive […]