#WorkforceWednesday®: FTC Exits Labor Pact, EEOC Alleges Significant Underrepresentation in Tech, Sixth Circuit Affirms NLRB Ruling - Employment Law This Week®
(Podcast) California Employment News – Key Rules for California Employers: Business Expense Reimbursement
California Employment News – Key Rules for California Employers: Business Expense Reimbursement
#WorkforceWednesday®: DOL Authority Challenged - Key Rulings on Overtime and Tip Credit - Employment Law This Week®
What's the Tea in L&E? Why You Need Policies for Temps and Other Contractors
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 30: Plaintiff Legal Trends with Paul Porter of Cromer, Babb & Porter
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The Chartwell Chronicles: Employment Law Updates
#WorkforceWednesday® - State Legal Trends: Crucial Changes for Employers - Employment Law This Week®
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 27: The Importance of Employment Counsel in Corporate Transactions with Laura Mallory and Ashley Parr of Maynard Nexsen
California Employment News - Navigating the New PAGA Reforms: What Employers Need to Know
California Employment News - Navigating the New PAGA Reforms: What Employers Need to Know (Podcast)
Employment Law Now VIII-145 – Status Update: Injunctions for FTC Non-Compete Ban and DOL Overtime Exemption Regs
California Governor’s PAGA Deal: What Employers Need to Know - Employment Law This Week®
Hospice Labor and Employment Trends - Get Up to Speed Fast: What You Need to Know About the New Rules Involving Non-Competes and Exempt Employees
The Burr Broadcast: FLSA Overtime Exemption
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 22: Compensation Programs with Carrie Cavanaugh of Find Great People
California Employment News: Can Pre- and Post-Shift Activities Be Compensated
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 21: Economic, Industry, and Workforce Development in the City of Greenville with Mayor Knox White
Clocking in with PilieroMazza: Labor and Employment News for Government Contractors
The “Summer of PAGA” continued last week when the California Supreme Court ruled in Turrieta v. Lyft, Inc., Case No. S271721, that a plaintiff in a Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) action does not have standing to...more
Last week, California Governor Gavin Newsom announced an agreement had been reached on reforms to the Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). The Governor, legislative leaders, business groups, and labor collaborated in...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: PAGA reform has officially been introduced in the state Assembly and Senate! The language of the bills were released detailing the most substantive changes to PAGA in its 20-year history. The bills have...more
Washington, D.C. added its name to the growing list of jurisdictions enhancing pay transparency requirements. Washington recently amended its ordinances to (1) require employers to disclose salary range or hourly pay in...more
The New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) recently published the Workers’ Bill of Rights, a comprehensive guide to employee, applicant and independent contractor rights in the workplace in New York...more
On November 28, 2023, the United States Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) issued a Field Assistance Bulletin (“FAB”) explaining changes to its process to assess civil money penalties for child labor...more
In a hotly anticipated decision, the New York State Appellate Division, Second Department held in Grant v. Global Aircraft Dispatch, Inc. that manual workers do not have a private right of action under the New York Labor Law...more
Wednesday, January 10, 2024: US DOL‘s WHD Published Its “Employee or Independent Contractor” Classification Final Rule - The U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) published its much anticipated...more
The use of Civil Money Penalties (CMPs) is a major tool in the US Department of Labor (USDOL) arsenal to bring employers into compliance, or to punish them, depending on one’s viewpoint. The USDOL has now ramped up the...more
El 9 de enero de 2024, el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) publicó los nuevos valores para la Unidad de Medida y Actualización (en adelante “UMA”) que entrarán en vigor el 1 de febrero de 2024, de acuerdo...more
On January 9, 2024, the National Institute of Statistics and Geography (INEGI by its acronym in Spanish) published the new values for the Measurement and Updating Unit (Unidad de Medida y Actualización or UMA) that will take...more
On December 11, 2023, the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office filed its first lawsuit under the State’s enhanced labor laws permitting it to commence actions against employers in Superior Court for misclassifying workers as...more
Governor Kathy Hochul recently signed into law the “Freelance Isn’t Free” Act (the Act), which aims to provide freelance workers certain protections across the state. New York employers who use freelancers or independent...more
A California employer recently learned the hard way that a competent legal strategy for defending against a Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) claim shouldn’t include hiring a supposed priest to dupe employees. And, yes, that is...more
The City of Columbus joins Toledo and Cincinnati as the latest Ohio city to prohibit employers from asking prospective employees about past compensation. Effective March 1, 2024, employers operating in Columbus may not ask...more
California’s Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (“PAGA”) allows employees to act as an “agent” of the State of California and recover civil penalties for violations of the Labor Code through a civil action filed on behalf...more
On January 25, the Office of the Attorney General for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts announced $440,000 in fines against Dutch Maid Bakery, a wholesale bakery in Dorchester, and staffing agencies used by the bakery, for...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a proposed rule on October 11, 2022, that could change whether a worker is determined to be an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). If...more
On September 27, 2022, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill (SB) 1162, which requires certain employers to provide more pay transparency on pay scales and expands pay data reporting obligations for other...more
New York City took the next step to expand its pay transparency laws. Effective May 15, 2022, job postings must include the minimum and maximum salary offered for any position located within New York City. This amendment to...more
With the government’s final rules on the tips provisions of federal wage and hour law becoming effective just weeks ago, employers will be challenged with ensuring they have a plan to address the rules’ impact on their...more
The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Jennifer Polcer. In today’s edition, they...more
California’s labor law enforcement agencies, including the Labor and Workforce Development Agency (“LWDA”) also known as the “Labor Board” has the authority to investigate whether employers violate the California Labor Code,...more
The Biden Administration is ending worksite raids to catch unauthorized workers, according to a memorandum issued last week by Alejandro Mayorkas, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. In doing so, the...more
Federal labor officials just finalized a rule that broadens their ability to assess monetary fines against those business that commit wage and hour violations with regards to tip payments, a development several months in the...more