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On June 29, 2023, the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Groff v. DeJoy. In Groff, the Court addressed the “undue hardship” standard, which is used to evaluate reasonable religious accommodation requirements for employers under Title VII of the Civil…

On April 23, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) voted to finalize a new rule to prohibit employers from enforcing non-compete agreements against workers.  The Commission’s Final Rule determined that non-compete agreements are an unfair method of competition and therefore…

This blog revisits a blog post published by The Law Group of Northwest Arkansas on October 26, 2022. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a notice of proposed rulemaking in late 2022 regarding the Biden administration’s approach to determining…

What Is a Service Animal? The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) defines a service animal as a working animal trained to do certain tasks for a person with a disability. The work or task must be directly related to that…

Employers are required under federal law to reasonably accommodate an employee’s religious observances or practices unless doing so would cause undue hardship to the employer. Accommodations can include adjusting work schedules or allowing leave for religious observances, providing a private…

When you start or operate a small business, there is so much to consider inside the walls of your business that it is easy to forget about things that need to occur outside of them. Those outside things often come…

This post is Part I of a pair of posts that will provide a summary of federal employment discrimination law as it applies to private employers. The purpose of these posts is to provide employers with a background for a…