April 22nd, 2019 Discrimination Complaints On March 21, 2019, Alaska’s Lieutenant Governor Kevin Meyer notified Alaska’s Governor, Marti Buscaglia, about permanent regulations that modify the state’s […]
April 22nd, 2019 Minimum Wage and Direct Sales On April 3, 2019, Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb signed legislation (S.B. 231) excluding a direct seller from the […]
April 22nd, 2019 Poster Update On April 1, 2019, the Nevada Office of the Labor Commissioner updated the following bulletins for 2019: Annual Minimum Wage; and […]
On April 10, 2019, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released detailed breakdowns for the 76,418 charges of workplace discrimination the agency received in fiscal […]
April 16th, 2019 Question: What should employers do to prepare for the anticipated January 1, 2020, effective date of new DOL’s white collar exemptions? Answer: On […]
April 11th, 2019 Question: What determines if an employee falls within one of the FLSA white collar exemptions? Answer: Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), […]
EEOC Proposes September 2019 for Submission of EEO-1 Component Two data On March 3, 2019, the federal Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a submission (in […]
April 8th, 2019 Employees and Forced Human Microchips On March 19, 2019, Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson signed legislation (H.B. 1177) to protect employees from forced human […]
April 8th, 2019 Updated DFEH Form and Poster In March 2019, the California Department of Fair Employment and Housing (DFEH) released the following updated form and […]
April 8th, 2019 Workers’ Compensation Poster In February 2019, the Florida Division of Workers’ Compensation updated its all-in-one “Broken Arm” (or “Workers’ Comp Works for You”) […]
April 8th, 2019 Wage Claims On March 18, 2019, Idaho Governor Brad Little signed legislation (H.B. 113) extending the time in which a claim for unpaid […]
On March 5, 2018, the California Supreme Court decided how an employee’s overtime pay rate should be calculated when the employee earns a flat sum bonus […]
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March 9th, 2018 On March 7, 2018, the Sixth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that employers in its circuit (Kentucky, Michigan, Ohio, and Tennessee) may […]
March 12th, 2018 Property Deductions Permitted from Employee’s Final Paycheck On February 23, 2018, West Virginia Governor Jim Justice signed legislation (H.B. 2546) allowing replacement costs […]