Salary.com Compensation & Pay Equity Law Review

Roundup: Proof in employment cases; Employee leave; Age discrimination, Noncompetes and injunctions; Excessive work and human rights

Newsletter volume 2.30 July 31, 2024

Salary.com Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review

Welcome to Salary.com's Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review.

Our editor, employment lawyer Heather Bussing, is tracking legislation, cases, and analysis to give you the latest critical HR topics. She and Kent Plunkett, CEO of Salary.com, also have a new book out on Pay Equity, Get Pay Right: How to Achieve Pay Equity that Works !

This week we're answering the questions:

Why is proving an employment law case so weird?
What questions should you ask when figuring out employee leave issues?
How are states addressing age discrimination in hiring?
Are the cases challenging the FTC's ban on noncompetes really about noncompetes?
Why don't the noncompete injunctions make sense?
Can making someone work too much be a human rights violation?

July 25^th, 2024

Why Proof in Employment Cases is Weird

In civil litigation, the person who is making the claim usually has the burden of proof from the beginning of the case to the end. But not in employment cases.

July 26^th, 2024

The Family and Pregnancy Leave Quagmire

Here's a quick list of questions I ask when I'm dealing with a leave issue.

July 29^th, 2024

Next Up: Age Protections in Hiring

States like California and Colorado are making it illegal to ask a job candidate's age or any of the information that would make it figureoutable. Here's more on Colorado's new protections against age discrimination.

July 30^th, 2024

Noncompete Agreements and Injunctions

Here's more on the FTC ban on noncompetes and what the request for injunctions are about.

July 31^st, 2024

In Mexico, Excessive Work Can Be A Human Rights Violation

This article on Mexico's human trafficking law is fascinating to me because it offers a different framing on the policies behind employment law.

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