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On November 5, 2019, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a new Rule which would allow employers to offer bonuses and other incentive-based payments to salaried nonexempt employees whose work hours fluctuate each...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

Complying with all the required notices and disclosures to retirement plan participants can be expensive and burdensome. The Department of Labor (DOL) has moved one step closer to making it easier and less expensive for plan sponsors to meet these...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

Effective January 1, 2020, the minimum salary threshold for the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions (EAP exemptions) under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will increase from $455 a week ($23,660 annually) to $684 a week...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

The Diversity Visa (DV) Lottery is a means for any national who is not born in certain annually excluded countries to apply for a green card. The lottery picks the “winners” who are then eligible to register for a green card — often without a decade...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has instituted a new compliance activity which could surprise the unprepared employer who has hired a recent graduate on Optional Practical Training (OPT). The site visits are limited to employers who...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

On September 17, 2019, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued a press release announcing that a charge of discrimination against United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS), alleging failure to accommodate in violation of the Pregnancy...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

If your company employs 100 or more employees or has 50 or more employees and a federal contract of $50,000 or more, the deadline to file your employee pay information with the federal government is the end of this month. Hopefully, if your company...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

The “20% Rule,” which provided guidance to employers for when they must pay tipped employees minimum, rather than a tipped hourly wage, was recently abandoned by the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”). First published in a 1988 DOL Handbook,...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

Yet again, the end of the year is rapidly approaching! To avoid costly penalties that can arise from inadvertent errors in the year-end crush, plan sponsors should begin talking with their service providers now about what must be done before December...By: Poyner Spruill LLP

As discussed in our prior alert, employers are now required to submit additional information to supplement EEO-1 reports. The deadline to submit this new information – which will include employee pay data (referred to by the EEOC as “Component 2”)...By: Poyner Spruill LLP