As the Thanksgiving holiday approached, Republican lawmakers in both chambers of Congress made progress toward their singular legislative priority to enact comprehensive tax reform.
On November 21, 2017, Mexico's National Minimum Wage Commission approved two new increases to the minimum salary, effective December 1, 2017. Taken together, both increases raise the minimum wage to $88.36 Mexican pesos per day.
El 21 de noviembre de 2017, la Comisión Nacional de Salarios Mínimos ("CONASAMI") aprobó dos nuevos aumentos al salario mínimo, elevando en consecuencia el salario mínimo a $88.36 pesos por día.
On November 15, 2017, the Puerto Rico Treasury issued Administrative Determination Number 17-29 to provide special rules and procedures applicable to distributions from qualified retirement plans and IRAs following Hurricane María.
The Ontario Court of Appeal recently upheld a lower court’s dismissal of an employee’s claim for payment of a bonus after resignation because the employer’s non-discretionary bonus policy included an “active employment” clause.
The current leaders of the Department of Labor, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, and National Labor Relations Board addressed transitions and regulatory plans at their respective agencies at a November 16 forum.
Labor Secretary Alexander Acosta fielded a range of questions on the DOL's priorities during a November 15 hearing before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce.
On the eve of the November 26, 2017 effective date of New York City’s own predictive scheduling regulations that affect retail and fast food employers, the New York State Department of Labor has issued proposed predictive scheduling regulations.
On November 10, 2017, a Puerto Rico official issued Opinion No. 2017-002 addressing allowable deductions from non-exempt employees’ pay following hurricanes Irma and María.
