Employment & Labor Law

COVID-19: Tax Filing Date & Payment Extension, Tax Credits for Paid Leave, and NEW Stimulus Payments

Posted on 03/25/2020 at 01:18 PM by Emily Staudacher

Categories: Bankruptcy Law, Business Law, Emily Staudacher, Employment & Labor Law, Start-Up Group, Taxation Law

Tagged As: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Family Medical and Leave Act, income tax, income tax return filing, paid family leave, paid sick leave

Tax Filing Date and Payment Extension Pursuant to IRS Notice 2020-18, the tax filing deadline and deadline for making in...

SBA Disaster Business Loans – Iowa Now Designated as Disaster Area

Posted on 03/23/2020 at 09:43 AM by Jeffrey Baxter

Categories: Agribusiness Law, Banking Law, Bankruptcy Law, Business Law, Employment & Labor Law, Limited Liability Companies (LLCs)

Tagged As: Coronavirus, COVID-19, disaster area, disaster business loans, SBA

On Saturday, March, 21, 2020, Iowa was officially designated as a declared disaster area as a result of the current Coro...

Identification of Essential Critical Workforce During COVID-19 Response

Posted on 03/23/2020 at 09:05 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: Coronavirus, COVID-19, Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency, essential critical infrastructure workers, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

On March 19, 2020, the Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security issued...

Trump Signs Families First Coronavirus Response Act: How It Will Impact Employers*

Posted on 03/19/2020 at 11:15 AM by Jill Jensen-Welch

Categories: Employment & Labor Law

Tagged As: Coronavirus, COVID-19, employment law, Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Family Medical and Leave Act

* With Contributions by Attorney Melissa Schilling After the U.S. House of Representatives made a number of changes t...

Update: House Makes Significant Changes to Families First Coronavirus Response Act

Posted on 03/17/2020 at 12:47 PM by Melissa Schilling

Categories: Employment & Labor Law

Tagged As: Coronavirus, COVID-19, employment law, Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Family Medical Leave Act, paid sick leave

On Monday, March 16, 2020, the House passed major changes to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, before the bil...

Webinar: The ABCs of I-9s

Posted on 02/21/2019 at 08:03 AM by David Gonzales

Categories: David Gonzales, Employment & Labor Law, Immigration Law

Tagged As: I-9 Employment Eligibility/Verification Form, Immigration Law - Des Moines Iowa, United States Citizenship & Immigration Services I-9 Central

E-Verify is on the lips of employers and legislators across the country. However, E-Verify is not the magical solution m...

EMPLOYER ALERT: THERE IS A NEW “SUMMARY OF RIGHTS” UNDER THE FAIR CREDIT REPORTING THAT YOU MUST BE USING TODAY!

Posted on 10/05/2018 at 03:49 PM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: Fair Credit Reporting Act, FRCA amendments, hiring, individual's rights under FRCA, Russ Samson

On September 18, 2018, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau published in an “interim final rule” which, among other...

Supreme Court Finds Auto Service Advisors Exempt from Overtime, Rejects ‘Narrow Construction’ Principle in Applying FLSA Exemptions

Posted on 05/01/2018 at 04:14 PM by Mike Staebell

Categories: Construction Law, Employment & Labor Law, Mike Staebell, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: construction, discrimination lawyers, DOL Wage and Hour Division, eeoc lawyer, employment agreement, employment attorney, employment contract, employment law, employment law attorney, employment legal advice, Encino Motorcars v Navarro, FLSA, Iowa Employer Law Blog, labor lawyers, lawyers specializing in wrongful termination, overtime provisions for exempt employees, United States Supreme Court, work lawyer

On April 2, 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Navarro. This case addressed the...

NLRB Reinstates Old “Joint Employer” Test

Posted on 12/21/2017 at 08:31 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Construction Law, Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: Browning-Ferris Industries of California, construction, eeoc lawyer, Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, employment agreement, employment law, employment law attorney, employment lawyer, employment legal advice, Hy-Brand Industrial Contractors, Iowa Employer Law Blog, joint employer, legal advice, local attorneys, New NLRB rules, NLRB, work lawyer

On February 26, 2018, the National Labor Relations Board issued an order vacating its decision in Hy-Brand Industrial Co...

DOL's Expanded Joint Employer Standard: You may have more employees than you think

Posted on 09/15/2016 at 11:35 AM by Mike Staebell

Categories: Construction Law, Employment & Labor Law, Mike Staebell, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: construction, DOL Wage and Hour Division, employment legal advice, independent contractor, Iowa Employer Law Blog, Iowa Wage & Hour Watch, joint employer, legal advice

In today’s workplaces, it is not uncommon to find businesses sharing employees or utilizing employees from third-party m...

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