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Avoiding State Law Pitfalls
Navigating the treacherous waters of federal employment law is not easy. Well-intentioned employers can unknowingly violate some of the more complicated (albeit well-known) laws like the Family & Medical Leave Act and the Americans With Disabilities Act due to a lack of familiarity with the applicable regulations or the case law interpreting them. When an employer has operations in multiple jurisdictions, the analysis becomes even more complex due to circuit splits on pivotal issues.
With so much to worry about on the federal front, it is no wonder that human resources personnel, in-house counsel and outside counsel often do not spend sufficient time and resources staying apprised of some of the more obscure state laws on the books. If you are reading this article, you almost certainly have internal or external clients relying on you to give them accurate advice on whether the applicable statute is federal or state, well-known or obscure, recently-passed or decades old. The purpose of this article is to highlight the importance of this obligation through hypothetical examples of well-intentioned employers violating unfamiliar state laws.
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