On June 15, 2020, the Federal Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling on LGBTQ employee’s rights. In a Tampa Bay Business & Wealth article published on June 23, 2020, Alicia Koepke discusses the clarity this ruling provides employers across Florida, and the rest of the country, in regard to discrimination…
Originally published in the July/August 2020 issue of The Florida Bar Journal. By: Alicia Koepke As a result of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, many businesses have been or will be forced to close operations or reduce or eliminate their workforce. In doing so, covered employers should carefully consider their…
Trenam Law is pleased to announce that seventeen of the firm’s attorneys have been named to Florida Trend’s Florida Legal Elite™ 2020. The list of publication’s honorees includes attorneys in private practice as well as top government and non-profit attorneys. To compile the Legal Elite list, actively practicing Florida attorneys…
This Employment Law Update was originally published on 3/20/2020 and has been updated with new information. For your convenience, information that has been added since our last update is underlined. As of April 3, 2020, there were more than 200,000 confirmed U.S. cases of COVID-19. That number is likely…
Originally published by the Business Observer on April 2, 2020. More than a decade has passed since the mass layoffs of the 2008 financial crisis. In that time, unemployment has fallen to record lows in many parts of the country, especially Florida. But with the arrival of the coronavirus pandemic,…
Trenam Law is pleased to announce that twenty of its attorneys have been listed as Top Lawyers 2020 by Tampa Magazine. Earlier in the year, Tampa Magazine mailed close to 11,000 surveys to Florida Bar attorneys in Hillsborough County. During the peer nomination process, attorneys were asked to vote for…
This is a follow up to the newsletter we sent last week about the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (the Act), which you can access here. Trenam Law’s Employment Law Group wants to let you know that the Department of Labor (DOL) has issued its first guidance on the Act, which…
Originally published in The Florida Bar Journal, Vol. 94, No. 2, March/April 2020. The importance of the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA or the act), 15 U.S.C. §1681, et seq., cannot be underestimated as each of us depends on the accuracy of information collected and shared about us to evaluate…
In an article published on January 21, 2020 by Modern Restaurant Management, Jacqueline Prats provides insight on the December 2019 NLRB ruling on employer confidentiality, specifically its impact on the restaurant and hospitality industry. Between 2005 and 2015, the restaurant and hospitality industry had the highest percentage (14 percent) of…
In a Law360 article published on September 25, 2019, Alicia Koepke provides insight on the U.S. Department of Labor’s recently released overtime rule, which updated the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA) overtime and minimum wage requirements by raising the salary threshold to $35,568 per year for employees to qualify as…
