Monthly Archives: April 2024

Applies to:         All Private Employers with 100+ Employees or Federal Contractors with 50+ Employees Effective:           April 30, 2024 Quick Look 2023 EEO-1 Component 1 data collection window opens on April 30, 2024 and ends June 4, 2024. Employers must file their information through the EEO-1 Component 1 Online Filing System (OFS)

Applies to: Employers Subject to the NLRA Effective: March 8, 2024 Quick Look The NLRB’s recent joint-employer rule is no longer enforceable. Employers should continue to follow the 2020 Joint-Employer rule. DISCUSSION The National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) final rule on joint employment was set to go into effect on February 26, 2024. The final

Applies to: Employers subject to the NLRA Effective: February 21, 2024 Quick Look Displaying “BLM” in support of the Black Lives Matter movement was considered protected concerted activity under the NLRA, when done in connection with employee complaints of workplace discrimination. DISCUSSION On February 21, 2024, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued an opinion

Applies to:         All Entities Formed or Registered to Do Business in the U.S.                               (Unless Specifically Exempt) Effective: March 1, 2024 Quick Look The CTA requires certain corporations, limited liability companies, and other similar entities registered to conduct business in the

Applies to:         All Employers with Employees in KY, MI, OH, TN Effective:           March 12, 2024 Quick Look Employers cannot use any reimbursement strategy, whether it be the IRS milage rate or a cost approximation, that would cause actual reimbursable costs to reduce an employee’s earnings below the required minimum wage or

Applies to: Employers with Employees in AL, FL, and GA Effective: March 12, 2024 Quick Look Discounted golf rate “perks” offered to volunteers does not constitute “wages in another form” sufficient enough to undermine volunteer status. DISCUSSION In Adams v. Palm Beach County, the Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that a volunteer’s receipt of

Applies to:         All Employers with Employees in CA Effective:           March 25, 2024 Quick Look Employer-mandated periods waiting and passing through security areas is compensable work time. Time spent traveling between an entry point and a destination point on work premises must be paid as of the first location where the employee’s

Applies to:         Covered Public Entities in CO Effective:            July 1, 2024 Quick Look PROPWA clarifies application, coverage, and protections for public employees. PROPWA establishes anti-retaliation provisions against protected activity. PROPWA implements unfair labor practice fillings and proceedings. DISCUSSION The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Labor Standards and Statistics (DLSS)

Applies to:         All Employers with Employees in CT Effective:           March 19, 2024 Quick Look An employer has the right to terminate an employee who is impaired on the job by medical marijuana. To have reasonable suspicion for drug testing, the employer must have specific, articulable facts that would lead an objective

Applies to:         All Employers with Employees in DE Effective:           February 14, 2024 Quick Look Delaware adopts final rules defining and regulating the Healthy Delaware Families Act and Family and Medical Leave Insurance Program. DISCUSSION The Delaware Department of Labor issued an order adopting the previously proposed rules for the Healthy Delaware