by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | State Labor Law
Oregon Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian ruled this week in a four-page opinion that Uber drivers are employees and not independent contractors. “Oregon’s worker protections are in place for a reason,” Avakian wrote in a statement. “When corporations misclassify an...
by admin | Oct 16, 2015 | Minimum Wage Law
St. Louis tried to hike its minimum wage from the state-mandated $7.65 an hour to $8.25 an hour, but it ran afoul of a recently passed state law barring municipalities from setting their own minimum wage. This week Judge Steven Ohmer of the St. Louis Circuit Court,...
by admin | Oct 14, 2015 | DOL
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced a Final Rule on the employment of foreign workers in jobs related to the herding of livestock on the range, including the herding of sheep and goats. The regulation, the H-2A Herder Final Rule, implements a methodology to...
by admin | Oct 12, 2015 | ACA, Affordable Care Act
Under terms of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), the official definition of small group for health insurance purposes was set to rise from 50 to 100 employees in 2016, but a bipartisan effort by Congress — along with a president’s signature — has...
by admin | Oct 11, 2015 | OSHA
Testifying before Congress, David Michaels, chief of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), said his agency is so underfunded that it can inspect each American business only once every 140 years. Facing a further 7 percent reduction in the OSHA...