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Australia - Wage Theft Investigations. The Australia Fair Work Ombudsman’s (FWO) 2018-2019 Annual Report, published by the government agency on October 20, 2019, found significant wage theft in the country over the past year....By: Littler

The Internal Revenue Service has extended the due date for providing the 2019 Form 1095-C (applicable to large employers as explained below) and the Form 1095-B (generally applicable to insurance carriers) to participants from January 31, 2020 to...By: Holland & Hart - The Benefits Dial

Although legal for medical and recreational use in Colorado, cannabis is still federally classified as an illegal Schedule 1 substance. As such, tension results when considering the applicability of federal employment regulations to cannabis...By: Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers

Under the newly adopted Section 203-e of the New York State Labor Law, all businesses with employees in New York state must update their employee handbooks by January 7, 2020, to include a new notice of an employee’s rights and remedies prohibiting...By: Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC

Employers often confront the question of whether employees can be disciplined for using social media, such as Facebook, to communicate with other employees about complaints regarding terms and conditions of employment. Frequently some of those...By: Snell & Wilmer

Just in time for the holiday season, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Labor Standards and Statistics (“Division”), has proposed replacing Colorado Minimum Wage Order #35 with Colorado Overtime and Minimum Pay Standards...By: Holland & Hart - Employers' Lawyers

Female Restaurant Servers Were Harassed and Then Retaliated Against, Federal Agency Charged - SAN DIEGO - Fairbanks Ranch Country Club, Inc., one of two entities the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed suit against alleging...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

Just as the H-2B visas for the first half of the fiscal year 2020 ran out (with some limited exceptions), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in cooperation with the Department of Labor (DOL), has released a new final rule on H-2B visas that...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

When Steve Jobs would lead an Apple press conference, he would always end it with “one more thing,” which was an important announcement of a new Apple product. It was his trademark and it was quite memorable. To echo that, here are some things that...By: Ary Rosenbaum

As previously reported, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced a proposed rule that clarified the fluctuating workweek method (FWW) under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Now, just two weeks later, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court in...By: White and Williams LLP