On a party-line vote last week, the Virginia House of Delegates voted 55-45 to pass HB 395, a bill that will increase the current state minimum wage of $7.25 per hour to $15 by July 1, 2023. The legislation moved through the lower chamber at lightning legislative speed and is now pending in the state…
Read More »In a decision released this past Tuesday, New York state Supreme Court justice Arthur Engoron dismissed a lawsuit challenging the validity of the New York City Fair Workweek law enacted back in 2017. The New York Fair Workweek law requires fast-food employers in the Big Apple to provide workers with 14 days advance notice of…
Read More »New Jersey Governor Philip Murphy released proposals this week that would mandate sexual harassment training for all businesses throughout the Garden State. Couched in the context of strengthening New Jersey anti-harassment laws, the proposal would have the state develop model policies and a training curriculum that private employers would implement to help prevent harassment and…
Read More »Tune up the DeLorean! The U.S. House of Representatives yesterday passed a resolution eliminating the 1982 deadline (yes, 38 years after the deadline passed) for states to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The change comes largely in response to Virginia – becoming a democratic trifecta state in 2019 for the first…
Read More »Despite a veto of SB. 839 by Maryland Governor Larry Hogan last May, the Maryland legislature went ahead and overrode that veto last week and thereby became the 14th state in the nation to “Ban the Box”. “An Act Concerning Labor and Employment – Criminal Record Screening Practices (Ban the Box)” prohibits employers with 15…
Read More »Just days after Governor Phil Murphy signed a dramatic expansion of the WARN Act (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) and only a week after the governor pushed for a millionaire tax in his State of the State address, New Jersey activists unveiled plans for push for legislative passage of Senate bill 921, the so-called Fair…
Read More »Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf had asked the legislature to reach a compromise and present him with a bill increasing the state minimum wage. The legislature couldn’t agree by the deadline Governor Wolf set and the state regulatory apparatus flexed its muscle. The state labor department proposed new increased salary thresholds for overtime exemption and the…
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 »To welcome in the New Year, New York City Councilor Ritchie Torres filed legislation in the Council that seemingly targets tipping policies of a number of third party delivery companies such as DoorDash. Torres’ legislation, if it passes the council and is approved by Mayor de Blasio, would require certain businesses within The Big Apple…
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