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Healthcare Provider to Pay $500K+ for Unpaid Wages and Overtime

August 8, 2023
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On August 3rd, 2023, the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) announced that a Texas healthcare provider will pay over $500 thousand in unpaid wages and overtime. According to WHD investigators, the employer failed to properly calculate overtime, denying its employees of earned wages. Earlier this month, the WHD announced a similar judgment in which six Connecticut restaur...
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August 1, 2023
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EEOC Released Updated Guidance on Visual Disabilities and the ADA

On July 26th, 2023, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released updated guidance on how the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) applies to employees and applicants with visual disabilities. The EEOC released the guidance on the 33rd Anniversary of the ADA. Concurrently, the Biden Administration released a presidential proclamation that signaled a renewed focus on the ADA ...
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August 1, 2023
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IRS Announces Procedures to Combat Employee Retention Credit Scams

As the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) recently eliminated its backlog of Employee Retention Credit claims, it announced new procedures to deal with Employee Retention Credit scams and fraudulent submissions. Moving forward, the IRS will ramp up compliance work to ensure employers understand how to properly claim the credit and avoid scammers. The IRS also provided warning signs of scams and tip...
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EEOC Released Updated Guidance on Visual Disabilities and the ADA-8-1-23

Six Restaurants to Pay $858K for Minimum Wage and Overtime Violations

August 1, 2023
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The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently announced that six Connecticut restaurants and their owners must pay $858 thousand for minimum wage and overtime violations following a federal court’s consent judgment and order. The federal court originally granted the DOL a partial summary judgment in the case last year. Under the recent consent judgment, the employ...
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July 26, 2023
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New Form I-9 Electronic Verification Option

Last week, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) announced a new Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification. The revised form includes several notable improvements. One such improvement is a checkbox that employers enrolled in E-Verify may fill in to indicate they used the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) alternative electronic verification option to examine identity and...
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July 26, 2023
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EEOC States Vaccine Mandates Led to More Religious Discrimination Charges

Earlier this year, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released its Annual Performance Report and Charge Statistics for fiscal year 2022, which showed a sudden increase in charges of religious discrimination. The number of religious-based charges increased by over 11,000 over the previous fiscal year (FY). In brief, the EEOC attributed this outlying statistic in its year-to-year ...
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EEOC States Vaccine Mandates Led to More Religious Discrimination Charges-7-26-23

Fiduciaries to Pay $124M+ for Retirement Plan Asset Mismanagement

July 26, 2023
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The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) recently announced that retirement plan fiduciaries with a firm based in New York will pay more than $124.6 million for retirement plan asset mismanagement. Specifically, the fiduciaries mismanaged the profit-sharing portion of the plan. The lawsuit alleged that the fiduciaries’ failure to diversify investments caused significant losses to th...
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July 18, 2023
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OSHA Announces Final Rule on High-Hazard Injury and Illness Reporting

On July 17th, 2023, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced a final rule requiring electronic injury and illness reporting by specific employers in designated high-hazard industries. The final rule affects injury and illness data that OSHA already requires these employers to keep. Meanwhile, OSHA also announced a National Emphasis Program (NEP) focused on preventing c...
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July 18, 2023
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Agency Again Extends the 2022 EEO-1 Reporting Deadline

This month, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission extended the 2022 EEO-1 Component 1 or EEO-1 reporting deadline to a tentative date in Fall 2023. The EEOC previously announced it would begin accepting EEO-1 reports in mid-July. However, this deadline now extends past the summer. Thus, employers have a little more time to prepare for filing ahead of an official deadline. The EEOC us...
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Agency Again Extends the 2022 EEO-1 Reporting Deadline-7-18-23

WHD Seeks Claimants for $5.6M After Illegal Employee Misclassification

July 18, 2023
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Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) announced it is seeking claimants for a case settlement of over $5.6 million for illegal employee misclassification. The DOL is seeking out over 1,300 affected current and former employees as claimants in the settlement. In October 2022, the DOL proposed an independent contractor rule that would apply a six-...
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