As expected, the United States Department of Labor today released its proposed changes to the companionship and live-in worker regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act. What was unknown was how significant the proposed changes would be.
The short answer: Pretty significant. The regulations substantially limit the companionship exemption under wage & hour laws to
This is the second in a series of posts on the new Paid Sick Leave Guidance from the Connecticut Department of Labor.
Back in June, I discussed who is a “service worker” under the new Paid Sick Leave law. It is a detailed list that includes butchers and bakers but not candlestick makers.
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Suppose your company has an incentive bonus plan that bases a bonus on the specific work done during a calendar year. Bonus payments are made 90 days after the end of the calendar year on an “Award payment date.”
But your bonus plan has an important provision. That provision states that “Participants must be employed
Last month, it was the EEOC that released new regulations on the ADA. This week, it’s the Wage & Hour Division of the Department of Labor, that has released new regulations on the Fair Labor Standards Act. The new regulations will go into effect in early May 2011.
While some of these revisions are more
Governor Malloy released his anticipated budget and the changes to the Department of Labor are modest. You can view the whole report (and the DOL portion beginning at 193) here.
Rather than dissect the whole thing, here are a few things that caught my eye:
Can a union president and a former HR Director work together effectively?
We’ll soon find out at the Connecticut Department of Labor.
Governor Dannel Malloy this afternoon selected Glenn Marshall to serve as the new commissioner of the Department of Labor, and picked Dennis Murphy as the agency’s new deputy commissioner.
In a press release issued
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Filling out forms ranks right up there with going to the dentist for me. (Don’t tell him I said that.)
I suspect I’m not alone. Which is why I’m sheepish about reminding employers that the Connecticut Department of Labor requires that employers with 75 or more employees as of a date certain, must
On Friday, the White House announced a new partnership with the ABA designed to help workers whose complaints aren’t resolved by the U.S. Department of Labor find a lawyer through an ABA-approved lawyer referral service.
According to the ABA Journal article explaining the program:
[B]eginning on Dec. 13, workers with unresolved complaints under
As I catch up from being at the ABA Annual Meeting, my colleague, Mick Lavelle, prepared this terrific little post about some long-standing labor statutes that employers should not ignore.
The Connecticut Department of Labor enforces statutes which were first enacted in the days when payroll records were paper documents, to be stored in filing cabinets.
Continuing the summer series on the basics of various employment laws in Connecticut, one of the issues that employers have questions on is the withholding of
wages.
Connecticut’s rule — under Conn. Gen. Stat. 31-71e — states that employers may not withhold wages unless one of three exceptions apply: