Beverage Distributor Fired Its Two Oldest Sales Employees on the Basis of Age, Brooklyn Jury Finds - NEW YORK - A nine-member jury sitting in Brooklyn has returned a verdict for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) on two claims...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
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On Tuesday September 24, 2019, the DOL announced its latest attempt to raise the minimum salary required for application of the so-called EAP exemptions for executive, administrative and professional employees under the FLSA. Earlier this year, the...By: Dickinson, Mackaman, Tyler & Hagen, P.C.
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On August 9, 2019, Governor J.B. Pritzker signed the Workplace Transparency Act into law, making Illinois the latest state to enact stricter legislation to prevent sexual harassment and discrimination in the workplace and protect victims who come...By: Thomson Reuters Regulatory Intelligence and
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In a welcome surprise for employers, on September 12, 2019, the California Supreme Court resolved the significant issue of whether unpaid wages constitute a civil penalty recoverable in Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA) claims premised on...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
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On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) unveiled the final version of its new overtime salary basis rule. The new rule increases the minimum salary threshold for salary-based overtime exemptions from $455 per week (or $23,600...By: Foley Hoag LLP
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..Based on the Department of Labor’s Final Rule, the minimum annual salary level for most employees covered by the “white collar exemptions” from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime pay requirement will increase from $23,660 to $35,568. ..The...By: Goodwin
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California employers set to comply with the new sexual harassment training requirements arising out of last year’s Senate Bill 1343 got a recent reprieve with new legislation that provides a partial one-year extension....By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
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Claims of racial bias brought by a black nurse who was reassigned by her employer after a white patient complained can move forward, a federal court in Michigan ruled, writing that any intentional use of race—even for benign motives—must be subjected...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP
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On September 18, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5 (AB5). The law, which goes into effect January 1, 2020, severely limits employers’ ability to classify workers as independent contractors in California, meaning that the vast...By: Cozen O'Connor
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On September 24, 2019, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) released the long-awaited revised rule regarding overtime exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The rule makes adjustments to the minimum salary thresholds...By: Harris Beach PLLC
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