Your employees will receive May’s MyLife newsletter today. This month’s email shares ways to gear up against unexpected misfortunes. It also highlights the Aspire scholarship program and the MetLaw® benefit.

On April 19, 2017, The West Virginia Medical Cannabis Act (“Act”) became law. In addition to permitting patients to use marijuana for medicinal use, the Act contains anti-discrimination and retaliation provision as well as other provisions that impact West Virginia employers.  

The process improvements are complete and the new and improved Job Description Service/Resource is up and running!  Log on today and take a look at our Job Description Toolkit and master job description template and experience our customized job description services.  

April 29, 2017, marked the 100th day of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. Even as significant changes in federal policies are being implemented, uncertainty surrounding important controversial issues such as the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the travel ban executive order, government contractor sick leave, the Department of Labor overtime rule, and EEO-1 filing requirements continues.  For more information review the details below and if you missed it, be sure to view our Webcast: President Trump; The first 100 days and Beyond.  Click here to access the on demand version of this webcast.

Observing that it would require “considerable calisthenics” to remove “sex” from “sexual orientation,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit, in Chicago, has ruled that “discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation is a form of sex discrimination” and unlawful under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.