Residents of the District Columbia voted to approve Initiative 77, which will incrementally phase out the “tip credit” that many employers use as an offset towards their minimum wage obligations to employees who also earn tips.
Bruce Sarchet and Corinn Jackson review the burgeoning popularity of laws requiring hotel employers to provide certain workers with panic buttons to be used in emergencies.
Predictive or fair scheduling requirements, which have been adopted in six major jurisdictions to date, are threatening to rival paid sick leave in breadth and complexity.
A new Oregon statute will require certain large employers to provide their Oregon employees with advance notice of their work schedules. The notice period will initially be 7 days starting next year before increasing to 14 days in 2020.
The DOL recently announced that it would begin the process of revoking its 2011 regulation specifying that tips are always the property of the employee.
