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Rebuild America Act Would Hike Tip Credit, Minimum Wage, Paid Time Off
By John E. Thompson If a 35 percent spike in the minimum wage, a $590-per-week increase in the salary amount required for exempt “white collar” workers, an immediate 41 percent rise in the cash wage...
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Make Sure You Read This if You’re Hiring Minors This Summer
By John E. Thompson Employers who will be hiring minors under 18 years-old should review in advance the federal Fair Labor Standards Act‘s prohibitions and restrictions applying to those workers. It is...
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Push For Minimum Wage Increase Intensifies in Congress
By John E. Thompson Last week, Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., D-Ill, introduced a bill to raise the federal Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage to $10.00 per hour beginning 60 days after enactment....
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Health Care? What Health Care? Here Are 3 Pending Employment Law Bills
By Eric B. Meyer I heard that there was some U.S. Supreme Court decision yesterday about health care. Want the scoop? Google it. They zig, I’ll zag with the scoop on some other pending employment-law...
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All-Out Campaign Underway to Raise FLSA’s Minimum Wage
By John E. Thompson We have previously reported on legislation introduced earlier this year to increase the federal Fair Labor Standards Act‘s minimum wage. In the last several days, supporters of the...
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Post-Election Wage-Hour Laws: What You Should Be Watching For
By John E. Thompson Now that the election is behind us, employers should consider what they might anticipate in the field of wage-hour law, which is already one of the largest sources of employment-law...
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New Hikes Will Give Washington, Oregon Highest Minimum Wage Rates
By Alyssa Engelberg On January 1, 2013, the minimum wage for employees working in Washington will increase to $9.19 per hour. On the same day, the minimum wage for employees working in Oregon will rise...
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Why Isn’t the FLSA Minimum Wage Really $33 Per Hour?
By John E. Thompson U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-MA, recently asked during a Senate committee hearing why the federal Fair Labor Standards Act’s $7.25-per-hour minimum wage has not already increased...
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Weekly Wrap: Why Are We So Crazed About “Passive” Job Candidates?
I know what it is to be a “passive” job candidate. OK, so maybe I wasn’t really all that passive if you get right to it. But twice, I was recruited by a search firm for a job when I wasn’t exactly out...
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Living vs. Minimum Wage: Shouldn’t Rewards Pros Be Leading This Debate?
Should every worker receive a living wage? There are movements in many states to raise legislated minimum wages up to levels that will support American families. Examples abound in Washington state,...
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Are You Ready For $43 Per Hour Fast Food Workers?
There is this new, hip burger joint in Detroit called Moo Cluck Moo (all right, it’s a SmashBurger knock-off) which is becoming famous for paying its workers a minimum of $15 per hour. OK, it’s not...
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Senate Introduces Comp Time Bill to Blunt Action on Minimum Wage
By Michael J. Lotito With Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid expected to bring the Fair Minimum Wage Act of 2013 (H.R. 1010; S. 460) up for consideration in the remaining legislative weeks of 2013,...
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The Living Wage Battle: Business as Usual, or Sign of Things to Come?
There is a fascinating battle afoot, and it may not be new but it’s manifesting itself in new ways. I’m talking about the battle between big business and the working poor. Like I said, nothing new, but...
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Workplace Legal Issues We May Be Dealing With in 2014
By Carolyn A. Pellegrini Wondering what to expect this year in the employment law world? Take a look at my predictions below. 1. State and local minimum wage laws The New Year brings with it increases...
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SeaTac’s New Workplace Ordinance May be Dante’s 9th Circle of Hell
First of two parts Dante, the Italian poet and author, was famous for numbering the Circles of Hell. In the State of Washington, the City of SeaTac’s new minimum wage, sick and safe time leave...
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SeaTac’s New Workplace Ordinance: Here’s Why It’s Hell For Employers
Second of two parts Yesterday, we told you about the City of SeaTac’s novel approach to minimum wage, sick and safe time regulations for employers. We likened the ordinance to Dante’s famous Circles of...
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President to Raise Minimum Wage to $10.10 For Some Federal Workers
President Obama plans to act unilaterally and bypass Congress with an executive order that would raise the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour for some federal contract workers, according to various news...
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Beyond the State of the Union: What Does It Mean For Employers?
By Michael J. Lotito Amid the usual litany of aspirational goals and objectives laid out during Tuesday’s State of the Union address, President Obama termed 2014 “a year of action” and announced his...
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Wage & Hour Watch: Cheerleader Lawsuits and Hypocrisy on Intern Pay
By John E. Thompson Some recent headline items touch upon matters of continuing concern when it comes to wage & hour issues: Hypocrisy on minimum wage The Employment Policies Institute has...
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The President’s Minimum Wage Decision: What Does it Really Mean?
By. John E. Thompson Considerable concern and confusion has arisen from President Obama’s State of the Union announcement that he will raise the minimum wage for individuals working on federal...
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