The current coronavirus pandemic has brought labor relations to the spotlight in some unexpected ways. On April 28, 2020, President Donald Trump signed an executive order using the Defense Production Act that requires meat-processing plants to remain open during the…
[UPDATED: 6/15/20] As the Harvey Weinstein trial made headlines in the wake of the #MeToo movement, a lot was said and done in the name of diversity and inclusion. Unconscious bias training, in particular, has played a major role in…
Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) raised the salary threshold for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA’s) exemptions cutoff from $455 a week to $684 a week ($35,568 annually) for workers classified as exempt from overtime pay, In…