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DOL Increases Salary Thresholds for Overtime Exemption

May 14, 2024 - Additional millions of salaried workers will now be eligible for overtime pay On April 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its final rule to revise the “white-collar” overtime exemption rules for executive, administrative, professional, computer, and outside sales employees. This rule, which will become effective on July 1, 2024, increases the salary […]

The 32-Hour Workweek

April 29, 2024 - Bernie Sanders proposes a bill that’s not going anywhere… yet On March 13, 2024, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) introduced legislation to reduce the standard workweek in the United States from 40 hours to 32. If enacted, employers of hourly or non-exempt full-time salaried workers would be required to treat 32 hours as “full-time.” Working over […]

Diversity in the United States: OMB Updates How it Classifies Race and Ethnicity

April 16, 2024 - Diversity in the United States OMB updates how it classifies race and ethnicity The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) published significant revisions to Statistical Policy Directive No.15: Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity. This directive was implemented nearly 50 years ago, in 1977, and it was […]

The Expectation of Privacy

April 3, 2024 - New Hampshire Passes Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Laws – Orr & Reno New Hampshire joins the growing number of states to pass comprehensive data privacy legislation. New Hampshire recently joined fourteen other states in enacting comprehensive data privacy legislation. Governor Christopher T. Sununu, who signed SB 255 into law on March 6, 2024, said, “This law […]

EEOC Announces EEO-1 Data Collection Deadline – Orr & Reno

March 29, 2024 - EEOC’s Data Harvesting Begins on April 30! EEO-1 Reports are due on June 4 As most private employers already know, when you have at least 100 employees — or are a federal contractor with at least 50 employees — you must submit some fundamental demographic data about your workforce to the government each year. Why? […]

Federal Texas Judge Blocks Enactment of the Joint Employer Rule

March 22, 2024 - The 2020 rule remains in place, for now, as the case moves through the courts. On March 8, 2024, Judge J. Campbell Barker of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new standard for determining when employers are “joint employers.” The United States Chamber […]

The NLRB’s Dartmouth College Case and the Future of the NCAA

February 29, 2024 - Board official decides student-athletes are considered employees with the right to unionize Region 1’s regional director of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) recently made a decision that sent a shockwave through the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) community. The director’s recognition of the Dartmouth College varsity men’s basketball team as employees — with the […]

Pay Transparency and Equity

February 22, 2024 - A proposed rule for federal contractors seeks to correct longstanding inequities At the end of January, the Department of Defense, General Services Administration, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, and Office of Federal Procurement Policy jointly published a proposed rule to help correct ongoing pay equity and transparency issues in the federal government. The rule, “Advancing […]

Significant Decisions: The USSC and Employment Law in 2024

February 2, 2024 - The United States Supreme Court (USSC) has recently heard oral arguments in three cases— and announced a decision in a fourth case— that could have far-reaching impacts on employment law issues in the months and years ahead. The cases involve religious accommodations for employees, whistleblower protection, mandated job transfers and discrimination, and the ability of […]

When is an Independent Contractor an Employee?

February 1, 2024 - The USDOL’s final independent contractor rule mirrors some existing state laws The United States Department of Labor’s (DOL) recent publication of its final rule about the “employee” and “independent contractor” classifications under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) had been anticipated since the fall of 2022. The final rule, which adopts a six-factor “economic realities” […]

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