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Especially if you're in one of the 13 states that will greet the New Year with new minimum wage rates and mandatory workplace notices: Alaska, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Michigan, Nebraska, New York (which actually takes effect on Dec. 31, 2015), Rhode Island, South Dakota and Vermont.
In addition, both Washington, D.C. and Maryland will increase their minimum wage rates on July 1, to be followed by Minnesota on Aug. 1.
Now, if you're currently an active subscriber with Personnel Concepts update service, all newly released mandatory posters, whether minimum wage or otherwise, will be both mailed and emailed to you.
If you're not a current subscriber, click the link below to sign up, or if you just want to update your labor law poster for 2016, the same link will let you do that as well. Either way, as the New Year dawns, it's a good time to make sure all your mandatory postings are current.
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