The Idaho Department of Labor has recently updated its mandatory unemployment insurance benefits posting. The posting revisions include a new color scheme, an equal opportunity statement, and a new unemployment insurance filing claim process. Before qualifying to receive payment, the unemployment insurance program requires applicants to meet the following conditions: be totally or partially unemployed Read more
Governor Jerry Brown signed into law several new no smoking laws that effectively eliminate smoking in all workplaces, ban the use e-cigarettes and other vaping devices where other tobacco products are prohibited, and prohibit the marketing and sale of tobacco products and e-cigarettes to persons under 21 years of age. The bills are effective June Read more
The Minneapolis City Council has approved the Minneapolis Sick and Safe Time Ordinance. Starting July 1, 2017, employers in the city of Minneapolis with one or more employees must provide employees with time off to address their health needs and that of their family members. Employers will also be required to provide time off to Read more
The state of New Jersey continues the municipal paid sick leave momentum. On March 14, 2016, Plainfield became the 12th New Jersey city to pass a paid sick leave ordinance. The Sick Leave for Private Employees Ordinance requires private employers to provide paid sick time to employees working in the city for at least 80 Read more
To help create awareness on human trafficking, the state of Florida has enacted Bill H 369. The new law, which became effective January 1, 2016, requires certain employers to post a human trafficking awareness notice in a conspicuous place (Florida Statutes, Section 787.29). The poster must be at least 8.5 inches by 11 inches in Read more
This summer, the city of Santa Monica, California will join a dozen other California municipalities to implement a minimum wage schedule that is higher than the state minimum wage rate. Santa Monica’s minimum wage rates will be phased in starting later this year and increasing over the next 6 years until the minimum wage rate Read more
As previously shared in our Compliance Poster Company blog, Elizabeth’s Paid Sick Time Law goes into effect today, March 2, 2016. Elizabeth has become the 10th municipality in the state of New Jersey to require private employers to provide paid sick time to their employees. Under the new local law (Ordinance # 4617), employers who employ 10 Read more
Louisiana law requires employers with 20 or more full-time or part-time employees to post an Earned Income Credit (EIC) Notice to Employees informing employees of the annual federal Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) eligibility requirements. (R.S. §1018.2) Earned Income Tax Credits are reductions in federal income tax liability for which an employee may be eligible if Read more
by Kathleen White, Research & Compliance Attention District of Columbia employers – DC has finally released the Protecting Pregnant Workers Fairness Act(PPWFA) mandatory workplace posting. The PPWFA requires employers to provide reasonable workplace accommodations for employees whose ability to perform the functions of a job is limited by pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding or a related medical condition, unless the accommodation Read more
Posted on June 9, 2015 by Kathleen White, Research & Compliance The Nevada Labor Commissioner requires all employers to post the Nevada Annual Minimum Wage Bulletin and Annual Daily Overtime Bulletin announcing the minimum hourly wage and the hourly pay rate below which an employee will qualify for daily overtime effective July 1. Each year Nevada’s minimum wage rate is reviewed Read more
