#WorkforceWednesday® - State Legal Trends: Crucial Changes for Employers - Employment Law This Week®
California Employment News: Overview of the Fast Food Minimum Wage Increase AB122
California Employment News: Overview of the Fast Food Minimum Wage Increase AB1228 (Podcast)
California Employment News: Top Developments in Wage and Hour Law for 2024 (Podcast)
California Employment News: Top Developments in Wage and Hour Law for 2024
California Employment News: Minimum Wage Increases in July 2023 and January 2024
Podcast: California Employment News - Minimum Wage Increases in July 2023 and January 2024
California Employment News: Professional and Administrative Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - Professional and Administrative Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - The Executive Pay Exemption
California Employment News: The Executive Pay Exemption
Top 5 Employment Challenges in 2023 for Government Contractors
Recent Developments in Wage and Hour law
#WorkforceWednesday: The Union-Friendly Biden NLRB, California's FAST Act, and Pay Transparency in California - Employment Law This Week®
#WorkforceWednesday: Employers Respond to Dobbs, Implications of the Supreme Court's EPA Ruling, and Pay Increases for CA Health Care Workers - Employment Law This Week®
DE Under 3: Reversal of 2019 Enterprise Rent-a-Car Trial Decision; EEOC Commissioner Nominee Update; Overtime Listening Session
Running Successful and Legally Compliant Internships
DE Under 3: Vaccination Mandates Continuing & Federal Contractor Minimum Wage
DE Under 3: OFCCP Contractor Portal & Request for Comments for Functional Affirmative Action Programs (FAAPs)
DE Under 3: Vaccine Mandates & More
How the FLSA “tip credit” is applied has been pushed and pulled numerous times over the last two decades. In the latest volley, the Fifth Circuit entered an order on August 23, 2024, vacating the Department of Labor’s 2021...more
The city of Renton, Washington, finalized rules to implement Initiative 23-02 on May 31, 2024. The initiative was approved by Renton voters in February 2024 and codified within Chapter 5-28 and Section 5-5-4 of the Renton...more
Does your Company have employees who are based elsewhere but travel into the District of Columbia to perform work from time to time? Do you pay these employees less than $17.00 per hour? If so, it may be time to increase...more
The City of Los Angeles announced its new minimum wage which rises to $16.78 per hour (an increase of $0.74 from the current minimum wage of $16.04), on July 1, 2023. The increase is based on the Consumer Price Index for...more
On September 30, 2022, the minimum wage in Florida will increase from $10 per hour to $11 per hour. Employers may pay their properly tipped employees a lower rate of $7.98 per hour (increased from $6.98 per hour), but the...more
With the new year will come new laws that affect California employers. The following are the “A to Z” of changes in the laws that may affect your business in 2022. Under existing law, if a COVID-19 outbreak occurs at a...more
The National Minimum Wages Commission (CONASAMI) reached a unanimous agreement to increase the minimum wage The National Minimum Wages Commission (CONASAMI) reached a unanimous agreement to increase the minimum wage,...more
El 01 de diciembre de 2021, la Comisión Nacional de Salarios Mínimos (CONASAMI), acordó aumentar el salario mínimo general a $172.87 pesos diarios y $260.34 pesos por día en la Zona Libre de la Frontera Norte, a partir del 1...more
Provincial minimum wage rates were increased to their current rates on October 1, 2021. Just one month later, on November 2, 2021, Ontario announced that because the cost of living has increased considerably due to the...more
California is at it again – adopting a host of new labor and employment laws that will further regulate and complicate business operations in the Golden State. Littler’s Workplace Policy Institute has been tracking these...more
Wage and hour violations in Illinois just got a lot more expensive. On Friday, July 9, 2021, Governor Pritzker signed an amendment to the Illinois Wage Payment and Collection Act that increases the penalty for underpaying...more
On November 3, 2020, Florida voters approved Amendment 2, which will amend Florida’s constitution to gradually increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by the year 2026. In Florida, a constitutional amendment must be...more
Florida’s minimum wage will increase effective January 1, 2021 as follows: - Florida’s minimum wage will increase by nine cents from $8.56 to $8.65 per hour. - Florida’s minimum wage for tipped employees will increase...more
Without notice or the opportunity for public comment, as required by federal law, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a regulation that will significantly raise the minimum required wages for H-1B, H-1B1, E-3 and PERM labor...more
If January's minimum wage, tip, and overtime developments forecast what employers should expect throughout the remainder of the year, it could be a challenging 2020....more
Following months of political maneuvering, including a gubernatorial veto, Connecticut has enacted compromise legislation that attempts to clarify how restaurants and other hospitality industry employers must pay workers who...more
As sophisticated employers know, an employer must track and comply with developments not only in federal law, but also state and local law. This blog post details key changes in employment laws in the District of Columbia in...more
Governor Lamont signs House Bill 7501 into law on January 6, 2020. As we say goodbye to 2019 (and await commencement of the 2020 session of the Connecticut General Assembly in February), the General Assembly via a “Special...more
We remember when legislative and regulatory developments rarely occurred in December, but those days are behind us. A Reminder About New Year's Eve & New Year's Day Rate Increases: Many minimum wage, tipped and exempt...more
On December 16, 2019, the National Minimum Wage Commission (“CONASAMI” for its acronym in Spanish) announced that the minimum wage would increase to $123.22 Mexican pesos per day, effective January 1, 2020....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The minimum wage will increase for New Jersey employers effective January 1, 2020. It is also that time of year when we remind our clients with operations in New Jersey of their obligation to distribute...more
Turkeys weren't the only things stuffed in November – there was a gut-busting amount of late-year legislative, regulatory and case law developments at the federal, state, and local levels concerning the minimum wage, tips,...more
The holiday season is nearly upon us, and the shopping frenzy is about to commence. This annual phenomenon brings the hurried engagement of seasonal employees, with thousands of these retail elves helping manage the increased...more
On October 8, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations governing the wages of tipped employees, specifically, tip credits and tip pools....more