Employment Law News and Insights

Regardless of your views on marijuana use, it will soon be illegal for Washington employers to reject most job applicants based on their off-duty cannabis use. Beginning January 1, 2024, most Washington employers may not reject a job applicant simply because they use marijuana outside of work and away from...

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The ADA requires employers to make "reasonable accommodations" to its disabled employees including "reassignment to vacant positions." More than twenty years ago, however, the Supreme Court held that if another employee "is entitled to hold" a vacant position under a "bona fide and established seniority system," mandatory reassignment of a...

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In April 2023, the long-anticipated new and modernized PERM Form 9089 was introduced to the public by the U.S. Department of Labor, Foreign Labor Certification (FLC) unit. The PERM process permits an employer to hire a foreign worker to work permanently in the United States. The FLC unit held two...

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