Wages & Hours

State workers’ minimum wage increasing to $15

02/04/2016

All New York state employees will make at least $15 per hour within six years, per the order of Gov. Andrew Cuomo. For workers in New York City, the rate will be in force by the end of 2018.

EEO-1 filings to require reporting employee pay

02/02/2016

The Obama administration is stepping up federal efforts to make corporate pay practices more transparent and spotlight discriminatory pay disparities.

DOL issues guidance on wage-and-hour liability for joint employers

02/01/2016

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Corpus Christi Citgo workers to be paid for briefing time

01/28/2016

Workers at Citgo’s Corpus Christi plant will receive a little more pay following a U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division investigation of the oil company’s shift-change policy.

Taqueria shells out $33,000 for wage-and-hour violations

01/28/2016

Taqueria La Herradura in Pharr, Texas, has paid more than $33,000 in damages to its kitchen staff following a U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigation.

Avoid the joint-employer perils of hiring temporary workers

01/27/2016

The Department of Labor has jumped on the National Labor Relations Board joint-employer bandwagon.

Most employers limiting raises to 3% this year

01/20/2016

A slim majority of employers—51%—say cost control is their primary compensation planning goal for 2016, after focusing more on talent retention in 2015. The result, according to Buck Consultants’ ninth annual Compensation Planning Survey: another year of stingy pay raises.

New rules: Minimum wage for piece-rate workers in California

01/15/2016

Under a law that took effect in January, piece-rate and commission-paid employees in California must receive at least the minimum wage. Piece-rate employees must also be paid at least the minimum wage for all time spent on tasks not specifically included in the piece rate.

Must we pay for employees’ online training from home?

01/04/2016

Q. “Our company has a policy of completing mandatory compliance training by a certain date every year. Can hourly employees who cannot complete these trainings during work hours (when they are clocked in) be asked to complete these trainings from home by logging on to the company’s training website? Will they have to be paid for this time? Is this legal?”

New classification aims at ‘gig’ economy

12/22/2015

Traditionally, there are four possible ways to classify people who perform work. But two classifications—independent contractors and employees—cover most work. Except, some say, in the emerging sharing or “gig” economy. Now two economists at the Brookings Institution think tank in Washington, D.C., have proposed a new category: independent worker.