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Updates in Labor & Employment Law

Fall 2014 Breakfast Seminar

Wednesday, November 5, 2014—Seattle, WA Thursday, November 6, 2014—Bellevue, WA Jeff Hollingsworth, Partner Ben Stafford, Counsel Presented by:

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Agenda

• Affordable Care Act Updates
• EEOC Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination
• Seattle Minimum Wage Update
• California Updates
• Supreme Court Decisions
• Decided
• Upcoming
• Ninth Circuit Decisions
• Statistical Sampling in Class Actions
• Employee Waivers of Class Action Rights
• Summary Judgment on ADA Claims (W.D. Wash.)
• Independent Contractor Issues

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Affordable Care Act Updates: Employer Shared Responsibility

Play-or-Pay

• 2015: Employers with 100 or more full-time

employees must provide coverage to 70%

• 2016
• Employers with 50-99 full-time employees

must provide coverage to 95%

• Employers with 100 or more full-time

employees must provide coverage to 95%

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Affordable Care Act Updates: Employer Reporting Requirements

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Supreme Court: Burwell v. Hobby Lobby

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Affordable Care Act Updates: The Future of Premium Tax Credits

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EEOC Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination

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• Pregnancy Discrimination Act
• Americans with Disabilities Act

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Upcoming Supreme Court Decision: Young v. UPS

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Seattle Minimum Wage Update

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California Updates

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• Longer statute of limitations for liquidated

damages on minimum wage violations

• Joint liability for wages owed to contractors
• Mandatory paid sick leave

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Supreme Court: NLRB v. Noel Canning

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Supreme Court: NLRB v. Noel Canning

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• Albertson's, LLC & Yvonne Martinez & United Food &

Commercial Workers Union, Local 1564, 359 NLRB No. 147 (July 2, 2013)

• Solicitation of grievances
• American Baptist Homes of the West, 359 NLRB No. 46

(Dec. 15, 2012)

• Union information requests
• Banner Health Sys., 358 NLRB No. 93 (July 30, 2012)
• Confidentiality of investigations

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Supreme Court: Harris v. Quinn

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Supreme Court: Sandifer v. U.S. Steel Corp.

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Upcoming Supreme Court Decision: Integrity Staffing Solutions Inc. v. Busk

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Is time spent in security screenings compensable?

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Ninth Circuit: Statistical Sampling in Class Actions

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Ninth Circuit: Employee Waivers of Class Action Rights

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Western District of Washington: Summary Judgment on ADA Claims

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Ninth Circuit: Employees or Independent Contractors?

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Consider: Who has the right to control the manner in which the work is performed?

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California Court of Appeal: Employees or Independent Contractors?

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Washington Court of Appeals, Div. 1: Employer Liable for Independent Contractor

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The Washington Law Against Discrimination protects independent contractors from retaliation.

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Questions?

• Affordable Care Act Updates
• EEOC Guidance on Pregnancy Discrimination
• Seattle Minimum Wage Update
• California Updates
• Supreme Court Decisions
• Decided
• Upcoming
• Ninth Circuit Decisions
• Statistical Sampling in Class Actions
• Employee Waivers of Class Action Rights
• Summary Judgment on ADA Claims (W.D. Wash.)
• Independent Contractor Issues