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New Jersey Updates Required Wage and Hour Poster
The New Jersey Department of Labor (NJDOL) has issued an updated MW-17 Wage Payment poster that all New Jersey employers must conspicuously post in the workplace by July 13, 2010. The new poster is intended to comply with recent amendments to the state’s wage payment law. The notice can be found at http://lwd.dol.state.nj.us/labor/forms_pdfs/lsse/mw-17.pdf, and the Spanish [...]
Independent Contractor’s Attempt to Collect Unemployment Prompts Audit, Penalties
Think you can fly under the radar for misclassifying employees? Information can come to light in a variety of interesting and unforeseen ways. An independent contractor at a New Jersey company filed for unemployment after her assignment ended. Her attempt to do so raised a red flag at the New Jersey Department of Labor and [...]
New Jersey Imposes Harsh Penalties on Repeat Wage and Hour Offenders
Governor Chris Christie signed a law which imposes harsh penalties on employers who repeatedly violate the state’s wage and hour laws, particularly the suspension of revocation of licenses to do business in the state. The act will take effect on or about July 13, 2010, but the state commissioner of Labor and Workforce Development can [...]
Proposed Legislation Will Make it Harder for Employees to Classify Workers as Independent Contractors
Citing lost revenue due to misclassification of workers, budget challenges and workers’ rights, Senator John Kerry introduced a bill designed to reduce the misclassification of workers as independent contractors. The Taxpayer Responsibility, Accountability and Consistency Act of 2009 is a companion bill to the one introduced in Congress in August 2009.
The bill would require businesses [...]
Employment Updates
A Missouri healthcare provider has agreed to pay its nurses ore than $1.7MM in back wages for failure to pay overtime and requiring them to work through their meal periods without pay. The FLSA requires that nurses be classified as non-exempt and therefore paid an overtime rate of one and one half times their hourly [...]
New York Changes Wage and Hour Laws for Hotel and Restaurant Workers
The New York State Labor Commission adopted several changes to wage orders in place for hotel and restaurant workers. The order is effective 30 days after publication of a notice of filing with the Secretary of the Department of Labor in at least 10 newspapers of general circulation in New York.
The adopted changes include:
Increasing [...]
Government Works to Ensure Compliance with FLSA
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently estimated that as much as 70% of all employers are out of compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act. To date, $1.4 billion in back wages have been recovered by the DOL on behalf of over two million employees. Moreover, $252 million in settlements have been paid out [...]
Wage & Hour Lawsuits In Full Swing
The owner of a maintenance service company was sentenced to 10 years in prison in Michigan for a number of workplace violations, including not paying their employees overtime that was due them, and failure to withhold federal income tax, unemployment tax, Social Security and Medicare from their wages. As a result of the investigation, the [...]
New York Strengthens Ability to Hold ERs Accountable for Wage and Hour Violations
As of November 24, 2009, the Commissioner of Labor will have the authority to prosecute claims to collect unpaid or underpaid wages before administrative judges within the Department of Labor. It also allows the judge to impose liquidated damages on the employer unless the employer can show that it had a good faith basis to [...]