The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a proposed rule to rescind the Department’s position that employers must comply with tip-pooling requirements even when paying the full minimum wage.
With the holidays in full swing, state legislators across the country are enjoying a bit of a lull. December traditionally marks the calm before the storm, as most legislatures are out of session and will reconvene in January.
The leftovers are (mostly) gone, and turkey-induced naps have been taken, but if you think a post-Thanksgiving minimum wage and overtime update will be uneventful, you are mistaken.
Bill 148, the Fair Workplaces, Better Jobs Act, 2017, which significantly amends Ontario labour and employment law, has received Royal Assent and is now law.
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.
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.
