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December 12, 2019
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DOL Issues Final Rule on Regular Rate of Pay

The Department of Labor has announced a final rule that will allow employers to more easily offer perks and benefits to their employees. The rule released today marks the first significant update to the regulations governing regular rate requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in over 50 years. Those requirements define what forms of payment employers include and exclude in th...
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December 4, 2019
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Locked in a Freezer for Retaliation: Chipotle Must Pay

This from the National Law Review website (sounds pretty bizarre): Austin Melton, a manager at a San Jose Chipotle store who was 22 years old at the time, was forced to endure pervasive verbal and physical harassment by his female supervisor. His supervisor propositioned Melton and his then-girlfriend for sex, touched him inappropriately, and posted a "scoreboard" in the main office to track t...
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DOL Issues Holiday Warnings to Employers

December 4, 2019
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DOL) remind employers to protect worker safety and pay during the holiday season. "During the busy holiday season, employers must focus on protecting their workers by anticipating and preventing potential hazards in the workplace," said Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of...
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OSHA Boosts Enforcement in FY 2019

December 3, 2019
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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) of the Department of Labor (DOL) today released fiscal year (FY) 2019 final statistics showing a significant increase in the number of inspections and a record amount of compliance assistance to "further the mission of ensuring that employers provide workplaces free of hazards," according to the agency's announcement. [caption id="at...
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December 3, 2019
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Agencies Propose Health Price Transparency

The Departments of Labor (DOL) and Health and Human Services (HHS), together with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), have proposed rules that would require employer-sponsored health plans to provide enrollees with out-of-pocket expense estimates. The rules work in tandem to achieve what the DOL describes as requiring "group health plans and health insurance issuers in the individual and gro...
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December 2, 2019
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IRS Extends Deadline for Employers to Provide Health Care Coverage Forms

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) today extended the deadline for employers and others to provide health care coverage information to their employees. The deadline is now March 2, 2020, up from Jan. 31. The IRS routinely extends the deadline each year since supplying the forms became a requirement under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA, usually referred to as the Afford...
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EEOC Pay Data of No Use, Says Federal Contractor Watchdog Agency

November 25, 2019
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In a notice published today in the Federal Register, the Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) deems the two years of pay data being collected by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) of no use because "it does not expect to find significant utility in the data." The pay data collection was instituted in 2016 by the Obama EEOC as a vehicle to enforce gender and ...
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EBSA Restores $2.5B to Pension Participants

November 25, 2019
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The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) of the Department of Labor (DOL) has released its program results for Fiscal Year 2019, saying that EBSA's enforcement and benefit adviser programs recovered over $2.5 billion in payments to plans, participants and beneficiaries. EBSA's enforcement program reported over $2 billion in recoveries from its investigations. Under its Terminated...
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November 20, 2019
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EEOC Joins the Joint Employer Fray

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is set to issue a rule next month defining a "joint employer" relationship, according to the federal government's fall regulatory agenda released today. The joint employer issue rose to prominence when McDonald's Corp. was sued by franchisee employees The Department o...

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Dollar General Settles Race Bias Suit for $6M

November 18, 2019
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Major retail chain Dollar General will pay $6 million and furnish other relief to settle a class race discrimination lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency announced today. According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Dollar General, the largest small-box discount retailer in the United States, violated federal law by denying employment to African Ameri...
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