by Girish Anand | Oct 19, 2010 | Random Musings
Vermont and Washington have both announced new minimum wage rates to take effect on New Year’s Day 2011 based on year-to-year inflation. Vermont’s Department of Labor announced it will increase that state’s minimum wage from $8.06 to $8.15 based on...
by Girish Anand | Oct 15, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, Random Musings, State Labor Law
Arizona will raise its minimum wage 10 cents above the federal rate on Jan. 1, 2011, bringing it to $7.35 an hour In 2006, Arizona voters enacted the “Raise the Minimum Wage for Working Arizonans Act.” This law provides for annual minimum wage rate hikes...
by Girish Anand | Oct 6, 2010 | Random Musings
Personnel Concepts would like to remind all employers in California that the state’s revised workers’ compensation poster, known as "Notice to Employees–Injuries Caused by Work," goes into effect this Friday, Oct. 8, 2010, according to the...
by Girish Anand | Oct 5, 2010 | Random Musings
In a law taking effect this past August, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has mandated that employers affirmatively inform their employees when anything negative is posted in their personnel files or records. The Office of the Attorney General is in charge of...
by Girish Anand | Oct 1, 2010 | Random Musings
Following its scathing rebuke of Nevada’s Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) program in 2009, Federal OSHA launched a review of all 27 states that administer their own OSH programs and has now released the results. The EFAME (Enhanced Federal Annual Monitoring...
by Girish Anand | Aug 25, 2010 | Random Musings
Class action lawsuits now outnumber all other employment-based class actions combined, according to a recent study by ELT, a compliance consulting and training organization that recently surveyed 1,800 human resource specialists and senior level managers. More than...