Meet Katherine

Katie Busbee is an associate in Haynsworth Sinkler Boyd’s Greenville office and helps companies doing business in South Carolina with employment law and economic development matters.
 
Katie advises employers on a wide range of human resource matters, including hiring, firing, discipline, leave, ADA and FMLA compliance, discrimination and harassment. She is experienced in representing companies in government investigations before the EEOC. Katie is also a frequent speaker on employment law and contributes to www.SCEmployersblog.com, covering workplace issues.
 
She also helps businesses establish or expand their presence in South Carolina by negotiating state and local tax incentives, drafting fee-in-lieu-of-tax (FILOT) agreements and other incentive agreements, securing job development tax credits, obtaining grant funding and ensuring ongoing compliance with these programs.
 
In law school, Katie served as the Research Editor for the Real Property, Trust & Estate Law Journal.
 
Prior to law school, Katie was the Director of Legislative Affairs for a local trade association.

• University of South Carolina, J.D., cum laude, 2021
• Erskine College, B.A and B.S., magna cum laude, 2014

• South Carolina, 2021

• Order of the Wig and Robe
• CALI Award Recipient: Securities Regulations, Business Torts, Complex Civil Litigation, Civil Litigation Capstone

• National Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
• Greenville SHRM
• South Carolina Economic Developers’ Association
• South Carolina Economic Development Institute, Class of 2024
• South Carolina Bar Young Lawyers Division
• Zion Assembly Church of God, Youth Group Leader and Clerk

• “HSB Employment Law Webinar: FMLA and ADA Compliance,” March 27, 2025
• “What Employers Need to Know About Shifting Caselaw and Legislation,” HSB Blog, March 12, 2025
• “HSB Employment Law Webinar: 2025 Employment Law Legislative Preview,” January 23, 2025
• “2025 Employment Law Update,” Anderson SHRM, January 9, 2025
• “HSB Employment Law Webinar: Navigating Religious Accommodations and Bias in the Workplace: Legal Obligations and Best Practices,” November 21, 2024
• “$44K and $59K FLSA Thresholds Struck Down by Texas District Court,” HSB Blog, November 18, 2024
• “FMLA and ADA,” Anderson University, October 17, 2024
• “Russian Roulette: Leave, Discipline, or Termination? Which to choose?” SC SHRM State Conference, September 19, 2024
• “HSB Employment Law Webinar: Mid-Year Legislative Update,” June 27, 2024
• “DOL Raises Salary Thresholds for Exempt Workers,” HSB Blog, April 23, 2024
• “HSB Employment Law Webinar: Navigating Independent Contractor Relationships,” March 28, 2024
• “HSB Employment Law Webinar: 2024 Employment Law Legislative Preview,” January 25, 2024
• “HSB Employment and Immigration Law Virtual Update,” Pee Dee SHRM Meeting, January 16, 2024
• “Essentials for Maintaining Employee Handbooks, Including the Latest Employment Law Updates,” HSB Blog, November 29, 2023
• “HSB Employment Law Webinar: Employment Law Updates and Essentials in Maintaining Your Employee Handbooks,” October 26, 2023
• “2022 EEO-1 Deadline Delayed,” HSB Blog, July 5, 2023
• “Federal Contractor Minimum Wage Requirements: Are all employees entitled to a raise?,” HSB Blog, April 20, 2023
• ​“2023 Employment Law Update,” Anderson Area SHRM Meeting, January 12, 2023
• Co-author of “FDI Oversight: Dawn of a New Era?,” National Security Law Journal, Volume 10, Issue 1, January 6, 2023
• “HSB Employment Law Webinar: What Employers Need to Know About ADA Compliance and Technology,” October 27, 2022
• “Bonuses & Calculating an Employee’s Regular Rate of Pay for Overtime,” HSB Blog, July 20, 2022
• “CFIUS Compliance Takes Form,” GGI Real Estate News, No. 15, Autumn 2022 and HSB Blog, June 20, 2022
• “Do I have to pay my summer intern?,” HSB Blog, April 19, 2022
• “U.S. Supreme Court Blocks OSHA ETS for Large Employers but Allows Vaccination
  Requirements for Healthcare Workers to Proceed,” HSB Blog, January 13, 2022
• “2022 State & Federal Legislative Preview,” Anderson Area SHRM Employment Law Update, January 6, 2022
• “A Look Ahead: 2022 Legislative Preview,” HSB Pee Dee SHRM Employment Law Update, Florence, SC, December 9, 2021
• ​“Mandatory Vaccines for Healthcare Workers Put on Pause,” HSB Blog, December 1, 2021