With the passage of Senate Bill 245, West Virginia made the use of payroll card payments that much easier for employers in the Mountain State. Up to this point, payroll cards were an acceptable form of compensation in West Virginia, but only if both the employer and the employee agreed. Now, in the wake of…
Read More »Legislation has been approved by the Hawaiian Senate – and a slightly different version was given preliminary approval in the House – both of which will kick up the minimum wage in the Aloha State to $18/hour over the next few years. Currently, the state minimum is $10.10 per hour, but that will change rather…
Read More »While the federal government hasn’t yet been able to prohibit the use of non-compete clauses in employment arrangements, the trend is growing at the state level with more considering limiting use of the restrictive covenant. Specifically, Iowa and West Virginia – states with republican Governors and legislatures – are both currently in play. The Iowa…
Read More »In the absence of a national policy limiting business liability against claims that stem from the coronavirus pandemic, more states are stepping up with limited liability protection to ensure that small businesses are not unfairly subjected to frivolous litigation. Most recently, the state of West Virginia became the latest state to put a law on…
Read More »Talking about Other People’s Money, the state of West Virginia has a completely different view of the propriety of spending tax dollars without regard to the taxpayer. This past week, the West Virginia House of Delegates adopted 11 articles of impeachment against all four remaining justices of the state Supreme Court. The fifth justice resigned…
Read More »Technically, the Fight for $15 began at the start of this decade with President Obama pushing an increase in the federal minimum wage in his 2010 State of the Union address, but the effort continues at full speed in state houses and town halls across the country. In North Dakota, advocates are planning to put…
Read More »West Virginia passed right-to-work legislation just over one year ago, becoming the 26th state to do so, but there seemed to be a problem with their drafting. A judicial challenge was initiated against the law by the West Virginia AFL-CIO and 11 other local unions in which labor alleged that the law constituted an illegal…
Read More »The national wave of states adopting right to work legislation hit a bump and stalled this past week when the Colorado House State, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee voted to kill Senate Bill 55, which would have prohibited any Colorado company from requiring union membership as a condition of employment. The demise of SB 55…
Read More »The United Auto Workers and other unions asked the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals last week to rehear their challenge to Hardin County, Kentucky’s right-to-work ordinance. As we reported just two weeks ago, the 6th Circuit upheld the county law and by extension, several others throughout Kentucky (which is the only southern state that has…
Read More »Last week, a West Virginia Circuit Court judge granted a preliminary injunction to the West Virginia AFL-CIO and 11 other labor unions in the Mountain State preventing its right-to-work law from taking effect. As justification for her decision, Judge Jennifer Bailey pointed to the fact that the state law provides for criminal charges and civil…
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