We advised a couple of weeks ago that the NYC City Council had adopted a 15% cap on third-party delivery fees, and shortly after the ink on that ordinance dried, DoorDash and other third-party delivery firms challenged the ordinance in court. While that challenge is pending, DoorDash also filed a separate suit this week, challenging…
Read More »Last night from the White House, President Biden announced that through the US Department of Labor’s Occupational and Safety Health Administration (OSHA), he will be requiring that all American employers with 100 or more employees mandate that their employees be vaccinated against the coronavirus or produce a negative COVID-19 test on a weekly basis. In…
Read More »As we advised you a couple of weeks ago, a 100% subsidy of COBRA premiums was mandated by the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) through September 30. The ARPA further dictated that plan administrators give advance notice to “assistance-eligible individuals” (AEIs) that their COBRA subsidy period is coming to an end. The final date by…
Read More »Periodically, our friends at SESCO Management remind us of some important requirements with which as employers, we are required to comply. In that vein, if an employer has less than 50 employees, they are required to post these 5 federal notices: Fair Labor Standards Act, Employee Polygraph Protection Act, Equal Employment Opportunity, Uniformed Services Employment…
Read More »Earlier this month, Starbucks announced that it will increase the starting wage for its baristas in all stores to $12 an hour beginning in October. The company had previously announced plans for the across-the-board increase to take place in January, but pointed to better than expected performance to justify the early increases. Elsewhere, two baristas…
Read More »New York City and the state of Maine aren’t usually packaged together relating political issues, but they are both tightening up employer options regarding criminal background checks. New York City of course, already restricted an employer’s ability to inquire into an applicant’s criminal history, but back in January, passed additional amendments that just took effect…
Read More »There have been a number of court rulings from various states around the country that we wanted to call to your attention as they impact issues on which we’ve reported and about which you may have concerns. First off, the California Supreme Court last week defined “premium pay” as the regular rate of pay used…
Read More »As we advised you last week, a Maryland court in Baltimore had ordered the restoration of the federal $300 weekly premium for unemployed individuals, notwithstanding the severe labor shortage that businesses are currently facing. Well, this week in that same Baltimore City Circuit Court, Judge Lawrence Fletcher-Hill replaced his 10-day restraining order with a preliminary…
Read More »The Supreme Judicial Court in the state of Maine has unanimously approved a voter-initiated law that requires employers in Portland, the state’s largest city, to pay employees hazard wages equal to time and a half for any work performed during a declared state of emergency within the city. Disputes arose immediately after 62% of Portland…
Read More »A federal district court in Ohio has issued a permanent injunction against a provision in the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) prohibiting states from using ARPA funds to offset state tax cuts. The provision provided that no states, territories or local communities that accepted funds from the American Rescue Plan Act (approximately $350 billion total…
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