Evanston, Illinois' Fair Workweek Ordinance will require covered employers to provide a written good-faith estimate of work schedules and premium pay for changes.
New York’s proposed FY2024 Budget includes legislation that would increase the state minimum wage rate for the next three years and index the minimum wage to the consumer price index thereafter.
On April 28, 2023, the Fifth Circuit ordered a Texas court to further consider a legal challenge to the DOL’s 80/20 Rule, which applies to employers that take a tip credit toward their minimum wage obligation under the FLSA.
Among the few thousand bills being considered by California’s legislature this year, AB1228 stands out. The bill would essentially create joint liability for employment-related claims in the fast food industry for both a franchisee and its franchisor.
With one day left to spare before the deadline to introduce new bills, on February 16, 2023, California Assemblymember Chris Holden (D-41) introduced Assembly Bill 1228, the “Fast Food Franchisor Responsibility Act.”
Berkeley, California recently joined at least nine other jurisdictions that have enacted “fair workweek” legislation. Berkeley’s ordinance is scheduled to go into effect in November 2023.
For nearly two decades, Nevada has utilized a unique two-tier minimum wage system that permitted employers that offered qualified health benefits to employees to pay $1.00 less per hour than employers that did not offer such benefits to their employees.
