Starting today, September 18, 2017, employers must begin using the revised Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification for all new hires. The new form includes changes to the instructions and to the Acceptable Documents on List C. The existing storage and retention rules have not changed. First-time paperwork violations – including failure to use the new […]
EEO-1 Pay Data Reporting Suspended On August 29, 2017 the EEOC, issued a statement stating that the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) plans to stay the effective date of the pay data collection provisions of the revised EEO-1 form. This stay is in order to allow OIRA to review the appropriateness of the […]
On August 11, 2017, North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper signed into law a new bill that will create a new Employee Classification Section within the North Carolina Industrial Commission, effective December 31. This new sub-agency will “investigate reports of employee misclassification and coordinate with and assist all relevant State agencies in recovering any back taxes, […]
On July 24 the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a request for public comment on potential changes to the previous administration’s overtime rule. The DOL is seeking input as to whether the current salary threshold of $23,660 should be updated for inflation, whether certain factors call for multiple standard salary thresholds and how employers prepared for […]
Judicial Appointments: NLRB and DOL likely to become more business-friendly, while the U.S. Supreme Court will swing conservative. With the new administration taking over on January 20, 2017, late Justice Scalia’s vacant U.S. Supreme Court seat is expected to be filled by a conservative justice, thus returning the U.S. Supreme Court to its conservative roots. […]
Late Tuesday a Texas federal judge entered a nationwide injunction blocking the U.S. Department of Labor from implementing a controversial rule that would have expanded overtime protections, saying the rule improperly created a de facto salary test for determining which workers fall under the Fair Labor Standards Act’s so-called “white collar” exemption. With this last […]
On September 29, 2016, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a rule requiring federal contractors to provide sick leave for their employees. The rule takes effect on January 1, 2017. The rule will apply to new federal contracts, wholly or partially performed in the United States, issued on or after January 1. Exclusions from the […]
Yesterday, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas enjoined the Department of Labor’s “persuader” rule. The nationwide injunction prevents DOL “on a national basis from implementing any and all aspects of the DOL’s persuader rule pending a final resolution of the merits of this case or until a further order of this […]
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