Author: Laura Musick

17 May

Posted at 20:01h in employee policy, employment law, Laura Musick, The GreeneHurlocker Blog, Virginia

Virginia Employers with 5 or More Employees – take note: Effective July 1, 2021, the Virginia Human Rights Act will include “disability” as a protected characteristic for the purposes of non-discrimination requirements. Beyond that, Virginia employers must provide reasonable accommodations to workers who have a...

03 Apr

Posted at 09:19h in COVID-19 pandemic, employee policy, employment law, Laura Musick, The GreeneHurlocker Blog

Laura Musick of GreeneHurlocker explains which employers must comply under recent Federal laws enacted in response to COVID-19. Specifics of paid leave for eligible employees are found in the Families First Corona Virus Response Act, the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act and the Emergency Family...

01 Apr

Posted at 18:58h in COVID-19 pandemic, employee policy, employment law, Laura Musick, The GreeneHurlocker Blog

Laura Musick of GreeneHurlocker explains what employees can expect under recent Federal laws enacted in response to COVID-19. Specifics of paid leave for eligible employees are found in the Families First Corona Virus Response Act, the Emergency Paid Sick Leave Act and the Emergency Family...

06 Nov

Posted at 19:23h in business law, employment law, Fair Labor Standards Act, Laura Musick, The GreeneHurlocker Blog

In our last post, we discussed analysis of the employer/independent contractor relationship through the lens of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Employers who hire individuals as independent contractors – because it seems less often the case that an independent contractor is errantly classified as...

19 Sep

Posted at 14:55h in Brian Greene, clean energy, consumer protection, energy lawyer, renewable energy, Retail Electric Competition, State Corporation Commission, The GreeneHurlocker Blog

The Virginia State Corporation Commission (the “Commission”) denied Dominion Energy Virginia’s (“Dominion”) July 16, 2019 petitions for declaratory judgment in Case Numbers PUR-2019-00117 and PUR-2019-00118 by Final Order on September 18, 2019. Dominion’s petitions sought to have the Commission standardize “around the clock,” “control of...