10/4/2024 3:21:11 PM Rolling out new rights: Pittsburgh’s bold move on medical marijuana in the workplace By Mariah McGrogan Brianna Schmid Since Pennsylvania legalized medical marijuana in 2016, employers navigated the murky waters of drug testing applicants and employees who...
7/24/2024 9:17:46 PM Compete chaos: Pennsylvania Court blesses FTC non-compete ban just weeks after Texas Court strikes it down By Mark Goldstein Brianna Schmid As previously reported, in late April, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) unveiled a final regulatory rule that would invalidate and ban...
7/18/2022 6:40:08 PM Pennsylvania on the path to increase threshold for tipped employees (part 2) By Veronica Miclot Christopher Bouriat In our original post, we reviewed the Pennsylvania Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) approval of proposed new regulations...
4/13/2022 8:43:09 PM Pennsylvania on the path to increase threshold for tipped employees By Veronica Miclot Christopher Bouriat In November 2021, Governor Tom Wolf’s administration proposed a new regulation that will require tipped employees to earn at least $135 a...
2/9/2022 7:12:24 PM Pennsylvania businesses with COVID-19 vaccine requirements may have to provide new exemption for employees By Veronica Miclot Christopher Bouriat Pennsylvania House of Representatives members have proposed House Bill 2318, which proposes that employers must provide a “natural...
5/27/2021 10:24:49 PM Is that a smile that I see? Pennsylvania businesses adjust reopening plans as the statewide mask mandate is scheduled to be lifted By James Holt Marguerite Goglia On May 27, 2021, Pennsylvania Acting Health Secretary Alison Beam announced at a press conference that Pennsylvania’s statewide masking...
5/6/2021 5:17:16 PM Pennsylvania businesses may need to finalize reopening plans By James Holt Marguerite Goglia After more than a year of navigating the myriad orders impacting Pennsylvania businesses in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Wolf...
12/9/2020 1:53:53 AM Employers with Pittsburgh-based employees face new requirements to provide COVID-19-related paid sick leave By James Holt Marguerite Goglia The City of Pittsburgh is expected to enact the new Temporary COVID-19 Emergency Paid Sick Ordinance (the “Ordinance”), which provides...
11/25/2020 8:19:47 PM Pennsylvania employers may need to revise policies and practices within the workplace in response to new mitigation order by Governor Wolf By James Holt Marguerite Goglia On November 23, 2020, Governor Tom Wolf issued the Order of the Governor of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania for Mitigation, Enforcement...
11/19/2020 8:07:13 PM Pennsylvania employers and employees receive the gift of new post-travel testing/quarantine requirements for the holiday season (Part II) By James Holt Mariah McGrogan Marguerite Goglia As addressed in Part 1 of this article, the Pennsylvania Department of Health (DOH) issued new orders on November 17, 2020 targeted at...
11/19/2020 6:04:22 PM Pennsylvania employers and employees receive the gift of new face covering requirements for the holiday season (Part I) By James Holt Mariah McGrogan Marguerite Goglia Like many U.S. states, Pennsylvania has experienced a sharp rise in COVID-19 cases in recent weeks. On November 17, 2020, the...
10/26/2020 4:06:04 PM Pittsburgh and Allegheny County vote to ban discrimination against race-based hairstyles By James Holt Mariah McGrogan Last week, the Pittsburgh City Council and the Allegheny County Council unanimously voted to ban discrimination on the basis of...
9/10/2020 4:25:26 PM Pennsylvania medical marijuana use on the rise in times of COVID-19 By Jay Glunt Chalyn Galligan Marguerite Goglia Pennsylvania’s Medical Marijuana Act (the “Act”) legalized the use of medical marijuana as of April 2016. Initially, the Act permitted...
7/21/2020 8:21:34 PM Update: Pennsylvania order mandates telework, but to what extent? By James Holt Marguerite Goglia This is an update to our July 17, 2020 article addressing the July 15, 2020 orders issued by Governor Wolf and the Pennsylvania...
7/17/2020 6:07:37 PM New Pennsylvania order mandates telework, but to what extent? By James Holt Raenn Burgo On July 15, 2020, Governor Wolf and the Pennsylvania Department of Health issued orders “directing mitigation measures” in response to a...
5/28/2020 5:15:43 PM Philadelphia councilmembers propose bill to increase paid sick leave for many federally excluded employees By Halber Armstrong Gavin Carpenter On May 1, 2020, Councilmember Kendra Brooks (At Large) announced a proposed bill, co-sponsored by Helen Gym (At Large) and Bobby Henon...