Earlier this week, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia heard oral arguments on the EEOC mandate to collect expanded pay data from large employers. Recall that the Obama administration updated its EEO-1 form to require certain businesses to provide pay data broken down by race, ethnicity and gender. The Office of…
Read More »The US House is making good on another promise next week with the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (PRO Act) being brought to the House floor for final passage. The PRO Act (H.R. 2474), which would strengthen collective bargaining rights for workers in private companies, was passed on a straight party-line vote by the…
Read More »Deadlines have arrived for two new mandates that business owners within Washington DC must be aware of. First off, the Washington, D.C. Department of Employment Services (DOES) released a mandatory Paid Family Leave Employee Notice (PFL Notice) last week. The notice, required by the Universal Paid Leave Amendment Act (UPLA) that was enacted in 2016,…
Read More »A constitutional amendment pending in Ohio moved two notches closer to the ballot this week as Attorney General David Yost approved the summary language of the proposal and state election officials certified the initial 1,000 voter signatures. As we advised just last week, the “Raise the Wage Ohio Amendment” would increase the current $8.70 state…
Read More »The first DDIFO meeting of 2020, to be held on February 11, 2020 at the Ruths Chris Restaurant, 1700 N. Westshore Blvd in Tampa is just over one week away, so you will want to register today to attend. Meeting the Need: Hiring & Retaining Good Employees will feature Kathleen McDonough, Senior Account Executive at…
Read More »Colorado became the latest state to dramatically increase its overtime threshold last week when the state Department of Labor and Employment released its new rules governing minimum wages and overtime requirements. Under the new rules, the state threshold will mirror the federal trigger of $35,568 until January 1, 2021, at which time the Colorado threshold…
Read More »New York City last week joined the parade of local communities banning retail stores from refusing to accept cash as payment when the City Council approved a local ban on cashless businesses by a lopsided vote of 43 – 3. The ordinance, which will take effect 90 days after Mayor Bill de Blasio who supported…
Read More »Just a couple of weeks after the legislature gave it final approval, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has signed the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act into law. The legislation, which has also at times been dubbed the “Toys R Us” bill in reference to mass layoffs at the former giant toy retailer, amends…
Read More »Despite political and Congressional efforts to strengthen organized labor (as evidenced by the above-referenced PRO Act), union membership remained flat in 2019 over the prior year. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), total union membership in both the private and public sectors dropped another 0.2 percent last year with membership stagnant at 10.3…
Read More »As more QSR brands engage their customers with plant-based additions to their menus, Tim Hortons is going the other way with an announcement this week that the company has removed its Beyond Meat offering from all stores within the provinces of Alberta and Calgary. Tim’s had previously ceased offering plant-based options in all Canadian stores…
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