This episode offers a Top 10 list of thoughts to minimize problems at your company's upcoming holiday party, discusses what's in the recently-published 2018/2019 federal regulatory agenda, and highlights two noteworthy cases on employers suing (for negative online reviews) and being sued (by an employee who signed a release).

This special episode discusses the new sexual harassment training and policy requirements imposed by New York State and New York City (following a brief discussion of a significant development on joint employer liability).

We're back! This brand new episode addresses the 10 developments you may have missed from this past summer of 2018, including employees secretly recording the workplace, new non-compete legislation, the unstoppable #MeToo movement, new FMLA forms, new FLSA opinions, and telling your employees what they can't eat.

As Memorial Day approaches to usher in the unofficial start of the hot summer season, today's new episode analyzes two red-hot issues: This week's Supreme Court decision on class action waivers, and the staggering rise of web site accessibility lawsuits. Joining me for the latter issue is Scott Trachtenberg, the founder and CEO of a company called ADA Site Compliance, to help break down what web site accessibility means and what your company should be doing about it.

This episode begins a two-part bonus series looking at the impact of recent marijuana regulation on employers. Today's part one episode features a roundtable discussion on the policies and politics of cannibis.

This episode flashes back to 1980's 9 to 5 workplace, and then goes back to the future to compare today's workplace of emoji harassment, a new game-changing overtime exemption rule, the 1st ever employer antitrust complaint (from the government), cybersecurity laws, and training managers to manage.

Wage and hour issues continue to keep employers up at night, with new lawsuits and potential exposure not diminishing any time soon. Today's episode tackles three important questions in this area: the meaning and potential pitfalls of calculating an employee's regular and overtime rates (and the status of the "new" overtime regs), strategically using a fluctuating workweek compensation method to pay employees, and keeping up with the DOL's new rules on tipping. This episode features Mike's labor and employment colleague, Susan Eisenberg.

This episode welcomes the start of Spring by addressing hot labor and employment developments on e-mail curfews, the DOL's new voluntary self-audit program, social media discovery in lawsuits, employees losing their protection under the NLRA, ADA essential job functions, and sexual orientation under Title VII.

Is your company thinking about your summer (and other) internship program? This episode presents an interview that Mike just gave on the Sirius XM Wharton Business Channel to discuss the United States Department of Labor's recent change in the test used to determine if an individual can be classified as an unpaid intern.

Happy Anniversary! This podcast started one year ago today on February 1, 2017 with Howard Schweitzer prognosticating about what employers can expect with a new President Trump Administration. One year to the day, Howard returns to grade those year 1 predictions and offer his political insight on what employers can expect in Trump year 2.