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Articles Posted in Wage and Hour
The DOL is hiring 100 more investigators to audit company pay practices. Lucky you!
ICYMI, the days of a more business-friendly U.S. Department of Labor are long gone.
And it’s only going to become more adversarial. Continue reading
The Mysterious Case of the Disappearing U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division Fact Sheet No. 84
I’m going to share with you the Mysterious Case of the Disappearing U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division Fact Sheet No. 84.
Insurance carriers will soon have to pay for COVID-19 at-home tests — up to 8 per person per month.
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We still don’t know **clicks refresh on the Supreme Court’s website** whether the OSHA vax-or-test mandate will survive Supreme Court scrutiny.
But, in the meantime, the Biden Administration announced some big news yesterday about at-home COVID-19 tests. Continue reading
The feds are suing a company and its owner that paid a former employee’s final paycheck in pennies — about 91,500 of them.
Roman Oleinik, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
If this isn’t karma, friends, I don’t know what is. Continue reading
Word is, employees will have to pay for COVID-testing under the new Biden vaccine mandate.
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Last week, business groups asked the White House to delay President Joe Biden’s COVID-19 vaccine mandate for private companies with 100+ employees “until after the holiday season.” Also, last week, labor unions asked the White House for additional worker protections beyond mandatory vaccinations.
By the end of the week, I expected that the White House would release additional information about the vaccine mandate’s scope and substance.
Nada. Well, not quite. Continue reading
Here’s hoping employers in states like PA paid nonexempt employees for COVID-19 temperature checks at work. Otherwise…
Technically, Pennsylvania is a Commonwealth. But that’s not really the point of this post. So, I’ll digress.
New Jersey is not f**king around with employee misclassification
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Since taking office, New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy has committed to battling worker misclassification, i.e., treating employees as independent contractors. Misclassifying employees as independent contractors can deprive workers of wages and benefits and also have tax ramifications too. Continue reading