Legal pot and the vagaries of navigating how to discipline ‘working high’ is going to cause many hands to wring throughout 2020. Despite Michigan having decriminalized the recreational use of marijuana, marihuana remains a schedule one substance under federal law. So, yes, you can still test for narcotics and can deny employment to prospective employeesContinue reading Dude, Let’s Talk About Pot
This is huge news. Starting May 1st, you will not be sent back to the parking lot by the court security deputy because you have your cell phone on you as you try to enter a state court in Michigan. This may have merely been an inconvenience for you, to walk back to your carContinue reading Cell Phones in Courts
There are two big changes for Michigan companies in 2020 that you may not yet have on your radar screen… The first is the impact of REAL ID. And the second is the overhaul of Michigan’s civil court litigation rules. Notice I didn’t mention the legalization of the recreational of marijuana, nor did I single out theContinue reading 2020 Will Be A Stealthly Big Deal
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USCIS is purging all E-Verify records that are more than 10 years old. E‑Verify employers have until Dec. 31, 2019, to download your case information from the Historic Records Report for all of your E-Verify cases that were created on or before Dec. 31, 2009. Why should you care? Because the government can still auditContinue reading Download Your E-Verify Records Before They’re Gone
A key aspect of the alphabet soup of data protection laws is vendor risk management. You should be aghast to learn that your vendor was storing all of your customers’ data on a billboard… or in a completely unsecured database. It’s like learning the babysitter left your kids at the house and went out onContinue reading Data, Left Alone and Unsupervised
The threshold for “exempt” employees — meaning, those who are not eligible for overtime — moves from $23k/yr to $34k/yr on January 1st, 2020. You may have formerly salaried employees who are back to needing to clock their time because of your need to track overtime. Clocking time may seem like a status hit toContinue reading It’s All in the Flux
Seemingly every day, there’s new of another data breach. Small to mid-sized businesses are being actively targeted by bad actors. Thinking that you and your company are too small for a coordinated attack is exactly the kind of complacency that hackers rely upon. To force us to help ourselves, federal and state governments have beenContinue reading HIPAA, GDPR, CCPA, and the Alphabet Soup of Data
The best way to make sure your business never gets fined for a Telephone Consumer Protection Act (“TCPA”) violation? Just pick up the phone and dial the digits using your fingers. Then use your own voice to talk to the person who answers. And, of course, before you do either of those things, you shouldContinue reading Just Pick Up the Phone
As Yoga Berra said it’s like deja vu all over again Back in mid-2016, the US Dept of Labor under President Obama proposed that workers making less than about $50k/yr should get overtime. Those proposed rules were then put on hold by a federal judge in Texas back in January 2017. President Trump’s DOL has now proposedContinue reading Overtime Redux, Redone Yet Again
