by Girish Anand | Jun 27, 2017 | DOL
The Department of Labor (DOL) will reinstate the issuance of opinion letters, Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta announced today. The action allows the department’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) to use opinion letters as one of its methods for providing guidance to...
by Girish Anand | Jun 27, 2017 | Minimum Wage Law
A study of the effects of Seattle’s effort to phase in a $15-an-hour minimum wage found that so far, with the minimum wage no higher than $13, low-wage earners have suffered an average loss of $125 a month due to decreased hours and staffing cuts. Specifically,...
by Girish Anand | Jun 26, 2017 | OSHA
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (ISHA) has announced a proposed rule that would modify the agency’s recent beryllium standards for the construction and shipyard sectors. Representatives of the shipyards and construction industries, as well as members...
by Girish Anand | Jun 23, 2017 | NLRB
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), in a unanimous decision, has expanded oral harassment to include smartphone text-based harassment, which board watchers immediately dubbed “textual harassment.” The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) prohibits...
by Girish Anand | Jun 22, 2017 | ACA, Obamacare, PPACA
Gearing up for a hoped-for vote before the July 4th holiday, the U.S. Senate (actually, its Republican leadership) this morning released details about its proposed Better Care Reconciliation Act of 2017 in pursuit of the GOP’s goal to “repeal and...
