The new federal overtime rule, scheduled to take effect on July 1, 2024, increases the minimum salaries necessary to exempt executive, administrative, professional, and highly compensated employees from the Fair Labor Standard Act’s overtime pay requirements. Specifically, under the new final rule: On July 1, 2024, the minimum or “standard…
In a recent preliminary injunction comparing Florida’s First Amendment views to the “upside down” parallel dimension in the television series Stranger Things, a federal district court in Florida temporarily prevented enforcement against employers of the Information Freedom Act (“IFA”) (dubbed as The Stop the Wrongs to Our Kids and Employees…
On August 4, 2022, the Biden Administration declared the monkeypox outbreak a public health emergency. Monkeypox is not expected to reach pandemic levels. Even so, employers should be prepared in case an employee tests positive for monkeypox. What is Monkeypox? Monkeypox is a rare disease that is part of the…
This year, in addition to the posting requirements set forth in our August 26, 2021 blog referring to state and federal minimum wage, federal contractors have two additional posting changes. Those who are covered by Executive Order 13658 must pay employees the federal contractor minimum wage, which was adjusted to…
Today, the United States Supreme Court issued rulings on the challenges to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (OSHA) Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) affecting certain employers with 100 or more employees and Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Interim Final Rule on vaccine mandates affecting certain healthcare entities. The…