The report highlights common workplace issues that can arise as a result of natural disasters, including wage and hour disruptions, leaves of absence requests, benefit and tax implications of employee assistance programs, and other considerations.
On January 15, 2025, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that disputes over the applicability of overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) are governed by the preponderance-of-the-evidence standard.
Massachusetts’ Executive Office of Labor and Workforce Development (LWD) recently published FAQs that provide guidance on the state’s new pay transparency law, formally titled the Frances Perkins Workplace Equity Act.
On January 14, 2025, the Department of Labor issued an Opinion Letter regarding the applicability of the FMLA substitution rule when an employee on FMLA leave is receiving state or local paid family and medical leave benefits.
On January 10, 2025, Mexico’s National Institute of Statistics and Geography published the new values for the Updated Metric Unit (“Unidad de Medida y Actualización” or “UMA”) that will take effect on February 1, 2025, as provided by law.
El 10 de enero de 2025, el Instituto Nacional de Estadística y Geografía (INEGI) publicó los nuevos valores para la Unidad de Medida y Actualización (en adelante “UMA”) que entrarán en vigor el 1 de febrero de 2025.
New York is set to regulate the working conditions of fashion industry professionals and the conduct of employers in the fashion, entertainment, and retail industries that employ them or engage their services.
Reducing the wage gap continues to be one of the EU’s strategic objectives. To this end, on May 10, 2023, Directive 2023/970 was issued to reinforce the principle of equal pay between men and women who perform the same work or work of equal value.
The City of Boulder has enacted its own local minimum wage ordinance, which took effect January 1, 2025, setting the city’s minimum wage at $15.57 per hour.
