Dunkin’ franchisees from across New England gathered in late April for the annual NE regional meeting. DDIFO invited new business members to join the event at the Sheraton Needham Hotel. Labor attorney Dan Field, a former Chief of the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Fair Labor Division, was a featured speaker and touched on critical issues like…
Read More »The Minnesota Chamber of Commerce has formally challenged the Minneapolis $15 minimum wage ordinance in Hennepin County District Court. The business group contends the ordinance, which increases the minimum wage to $10 per hour effective January 1, is illegal in that it violates state law, which reserves the power to establish minimum wages to the…
Read More »Hard to believe, but some states that have seen sick leave laws passed dictating that employers (those who actually create jobs!) provide additional benefits to employees are now taking a 2nd look at the question. Specifically, the Pennsylvania state senate is considering legislation that would preempt the city of Philadelphia from continuing to enforce its…
Read More »Speaking of the SEIU efforts to raise minimum wages across the country, a legal effort to block the voter approved wage hike in Arizona from taking effect on Sunday has been dismissed by the court. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Daniel Kiley rejected several arguments put forth by a number of Chambers of Commerce that…
Read More »The advocates haven’t been able to get mandatory sick leave enacted into law in New Jersey, in large measure because Governor Chris Christie has opposed the blanket benefit being foisted upon all businesses. That fact just seems to embolden some however, and the town of Morristown is just the latest example. The community’s Town Council…
Read More »There may be only 174 days left to the Obama administration, but his penchant for ruling by Executive Order continues to impact businesses. Executive Order 13706 requires federal contractors to offer their employees up to 7 days of paid sick leave per year on the basis of one hour earned for every 30 hours worked. …
Read More »Maybe it’s the sunshine, or the “healthy living”, but mandated sick leave is spreading to more communities in the Golden State as next month three major municipalities will foist the mandated benefit onto private employers beginning July 1. The state of California began mandating paid sick leave one year ago – after meeting a 30…
Read More »The germ of paid sick leave spread to the Midwest as well this week, as Chicago formally adopted the mandate by a unanimous vote of 48-0 at the Wednesday meeting of the City Council. As we advised you last week, with 38 sponsors (out of 50 aldermen) and the support of Mayor Rahm Emmanuel, the…
Read More »The Small Business Administration Office of Advocacy is hosting a roundtable next Monday in Washington on the Department of Labor (DOL) recently published regulation for sick leave benefits required of federal sub-contractors (including restaurants on federal property). The Office of Advocacy is charged with representing the interests of small businesses and commenting accordingly on the…
Read More »The dictates on small business continue and the paid sick leave benefit has now been mandated by a fifth state as Vermont Governor Peter Shumlin signed paid sick leave into law this week in the Green Mountain State. Under House 187, which cleared the legislature late last month and was signed into law Wednesday, all…
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