Just days before New Jersey’s paid sick and safe time law is set to take effect, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development issued a set of Frequently Asked Questions to help employers comply with the new law.
Employers will face fewer significant regulations in the coming year, according to the Trump administration's Unified Agenda of Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.
In the days leading up to the confirmation vote on Supreme Court Justice Kavanaugh, more than half of Americans said they had engaged in political discussions in the workplace about his confirmation battle.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s litigation program brought 66 lawsuits alleging workplace harassment (41 alleging sexual harassment) in FY 2018, a more than 50% increase over the prior year.
The Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) recently issued its first estimate of how many U.S. workers participate in electronically mediated (online platform) work.
The past month was full of minimum wage, tip, and overtime activity: amendments; annual rate adjustments; ballot measure battles; legal challenges; and new bills. It was a September to remember.
On September 21, 2018, the Pennsylvania Independent Regulatory Review Commission responded to a proposal to update the Executive, Administrative and Professional overtime exemptions to the state's minimum wage law.
On Monday, October 1, 2018, the State of New York released final versions of a sexual harassment policy, complaint form, and employee training relating to sexual harassment.
