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Kastner Westman & Wilkins, LLC shareholder Jaime U. Kolligian was named to serve on the Board for United Disability Services in Akron and the Cleveland Advisory Board for the Ohio Diversity Council. United Disability Services seeks to enhance the quality of life for...

On January 5, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced, as yet another signal of the Trump administration’s employer-friendly enforcement agenda, that it would adopt a more flexible test for determining whether interns are employees entitled to the...

With the new year comes a fresh set of laws impacting employers conducting business in California. Effective January 1, 2018, California has enacted laws limiting employers’ ability to inquire into or consider an applicant’s salary and criminal history, expanding...

Sexual harassment scandals have dominated the news cycle for the past several months. Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, Charlie Rose, Roger Ailes, Bill O’Reilly, Kevin Spacey, Louis C.K. The list of high-profile individuals accused of engaging in harassment,...

If your organization has one or more employees in Ohio, you should know that Ohio is one of 18 states raising minimum wages in 2018. On January 1, 2018, Ohio’s minimum hourly wage was increased to $8.30 for most employees. Pursuant to a 2006 amendment to the Ohio...

On December 1, 2017, the National Labor Relations Board’s (“NLRB”) newly-appointed General Counsel, Peter Robb—a former management-side labor attorney—issued an important memorandum that sets the stage for federal labor relations policy in the coming months and years....

If your organization has one or more employees working in New York State, we have an important update for you. Beginning on January 1, 2018, employees working in New York State will be eligible for paid family leave (“PFL”): To provide care, including physical or...

Late last week the National Labor Relations Board (“Board”) overturned the standard for weighing the legality of employee handbook policies, and the controversial Obama-era joint employer test. Both decisions – which were split 3-2 along party lines – have been...

Kastner Westman & Wilkins, LLC attorneys James P. Wilkins, Jaime U. Kolligian, Julie A. Trout and Michael J. Spisak were named among the 2017 Ohio Super Lawyers, an attorney rating service designation based on peer recognition and professional achievement. Wilkins, a...

Employers may be relieved to hear that OSHA briefly extended the compliance deadline for its new “Improve Tracking of Workplace Injuries and Illnesses” Rule’s electronic reporting requirements (“Rule”) (also commonly referred to as the “Electronic Reporting Rule”) to...