Employers Required to Report Additional EEO Pay Data by September 30, 2019

A federal judge has ordered private employers with one hundred or more employees to start reporting for the first time their employees’ W-2 annual earnings and hours worked. The new requirement is part of a government campaign to improve the enforcement of federal laws prohibiting pay discrimination. The employers’ reports for 2018, reporting the pay…

U.S. Labor Department Proposes New Overtime Pay Rule

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has finally issued its long-awaited proposed replacement of the Obama administration’s prior and controversial overtime rule. In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking made public on March 7, the DOL proposes to increase the minimum salary threshold required for workers to qualify for the Fair Labor Standards Act’s “white collar”…

Three Strikes and Miami Beach Minimum Wage Law is Out

The dream of former Miami Beach Mayor Philip Levine that the city should have its own, higher minimum wage law has finally crashed and burned at the newly reconstituted Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee. By a 4-3 vote on August 29 last year, the justices had agreed to consider a discretionary appeal by Miami Beach…