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The Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs or OFCCP has updated the “Equal Employment Opportunity is The Law” poster required for nearly every employer in the US.

What are the major differences between the new poster and the older version? There are several. But the most important difference is that the EEOC and the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs will no longer accept the old version of the poster. Having an old version posted is the same as having no poster on display, to these federal regulatory agencies. So each employer should update his or her poster immediately.

The new EEO or Equal Employment Opportunity poster reflects a number of changes to the law in the past year. These include changes to (more…)

A Florida law that went into effect in July permits employees to keep guns in their locked cars at work. Under the new law, employers can no longer prohibit guns on their property. A Florida worker who has a valid permit to own a gun and carry a concealed weapon, can have that gun in his or her car in the parking lot while at work, eating at a restaurant or shopping in a mall.

Florida employers do not have to permit the employees to bring guns into the workplace. That’s still a matter of company policy.

The Disney Company is (more…)