As previously shared in our blog, the city of St. Louis passed a law on August 14th to increase its minimum wage rate. Minimum wage employees who had worked at least 20 hours within a calendar year in the City had to be paid $8.25 per hour starting October 15th. Under the new ordinance, employers Read more
How well is the US DOL Wage and Hour Division Performing? The US Department of Labor (US DOL), through various agencies, is responsible for the administration and enforcement of over 180 federal statutes. The US DOL’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) in particular is responsible for administering and enforcing a number of laws that establish Read more
Beginning tomorrow October 15th, employers in the city of St. Louis must pay their minimum wage employees $8.25 per hour. As stated in the new ordinance (Bill 83), an employee must be paid the new rate if he or she worked 20 hours within a calendar year while physically present within the geographic boundaries of Read more
Workers in jobs provided by labor suppliers face greater risks of workplace illness, injury, and death. In California, temporary workers are 50 percent more likely to suffer an injury on the job than permanent workers in similar jobs. To help protect temp workers from hazards in the workplace, Cal/OSHA has a new fact sheet explaining Read more
The state of Texas has recently passed a law (Bill H 1151) that protects unpaid interns from sexual harassment in the workplace. The law, which went into effect on September 1st, defines sexual harassment as an “unwelcomed sexual advance, a request for a sexual favor, or any other verbal or physical conduct of a sexual Read more
There are 12 states that currently tie their minimum wage rates to the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Each year, these states adjust their minimum wage rates for an increase in the CPI over the last year. Oregon and Washington are the latest states to officially announce their minimum wage rates for 2016. Because there was Read more
New Jersey Labor and Workforce Development, Division of Wage and Hour Compliance announced that the state’s minimum wage rate of $8.38 per hour will remain unchanged for 2016. As previously shared in our CPC blog, New Jersey passed a new law (Bill SCR 1) during the 2014 legislative session, amending its constitution. Under the enacted Read more
Revised Washington Job Safety & Health Law Posting Washington has updated the required Job Safety and Health Law (JS&H) workplace posting. The primary change to the posting concerns employers’ reporting requirements when a work-related incident results in death, hospitalization, amputation or loss of an eye. Specifically, deaths and hospitalizations must be reported to the Washington Read more
Earlier this year, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) revised their recordkeeping rules. The changes included reporting all work-related fatalities within eight hours and all work-related inpatient hospitalizations, all amputations, and all losses on an eye within 24 hours starting on January 1, 2015. These federal OSHA changes were adopted by Minnesota OSHA (MNOSHA) Read more
The Ohio Department of Commerce has announced that Ohio’s minimum wage rate will stay the same next year. The current minimum wage rate is $8.10 per hour for nontipped employees and $4.05 per hour for tipped employees. The state minimum wage applies to employees of businesses with annual gross receipts of more than $297,000 per Read more
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