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As we previously reported, on June 13, the Departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury (collectively, the “Departments”) issued a coordinated set of final regulations (“final rules”) permitting employers to, among other things,...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

The arrival of the holiday season means that 2020 is just around the corner. In anticipation of the new year, employers should take time to review upcoming changes to the requirements of the New York Paid Family Leave Law (NYPFL or PFL) and ensure...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

In addition to death and taxes, there’s one more certainty in life -- that California’s General Assembly will keep employment lawyers in business. In September and October, California enacted a pair of ground-shifting new laws that practically scream...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

The D.C. council is considering legislation that would prohibit the use of non-compete provisions for entry level and moderate-income employees, and would apply to D.C. workers that earn up to three times the minimum wage, currently equal to $87,654...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

November 4 UPDATE: On Oct. 29, 2019, a federal district court directed the EEOC to continue to do its best to complete the EEO-1 Component 2 data collection by January 31, 2020, overruling the EEOC’s unilaterally imposed November 11, 2019 deadline...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

Over the past weeks, I’ve written a few times on the ongoing requirements and changing deadlines of the EEOC’s EEO-1 survey Component 2 data submission. Just yesterday, the EEOC announced a new deadline by which employers should submit their...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

California Governor Gavin Newsom just signed AB 51 into law, which means that effective January 1, 2010, employers will (purportedly) be prohibited from requiring employees to consent to mandatory arbitration of employment claims. Here is what your...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

New York recently extended its protections of the New York City Human Rights Law to non-employees, including contractors and freelancers, following in the footsteps of New York State, which recently amended its Human Rights Law in a similar manner....By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

Calculating overtime pay for tipped employees working in multiple positions at different rates in a single workweek can be confusing. So confusing, in fact, that we discovered that even the District of Columbia’s Department of Employment Services...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits

A few weeks ago, I wrote about the EEO-1 Component 2 2017 and 2018 data submission deadline on September 30. On September 27, the EEOC announced in a court filing that collection of Component 2 data is continuing as long as “the Court’s order is in...By: Mintz - Employment, Labor & Benefits