In our last Issue of the Compliance Newsletter, we told you that Arizona’s Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act (the “Act”), which established a new minimum wage (effective January 1, 2017) and a new paid sick leave requirement (effective July 1, 2017), was being contested in ...

Arizona becomes the sixth state to enact legislation requiring employers to provide certain employees with earned paid sick time effective July 1, 2017. Please review the specific requirements of the Fair Wages and Healthy Families Act (Proposition 206) ...

Overview.  On March 14, the City of Los Angeles Office of Wage Standards revised its rules implementing the Minimum Wage Ordinance, which includes mandatory paid sick leave requirements.  The City of Los Angeles Minimum Wage and Sick Time Benefits Frequently Asked Questions have been ...

Overview.  On March 14, Arkansas Governor, Asa Hutchinson, signed into law Act 435 (H.B. 1609) increasing the flexibility in the law regarding the frequency of the payment of wages for certain employees. Arkansas law currently requires employers to pay wages of salespersons, mechanics, ...

Overview.  On March 27, Kentucky Governor, Matt Bevin, signed a measure (H.B. 378) amending KRS 337.010 to update the ways that an employee may receive wages and prohibit activation fees for wages on a debit card.  The law will permit the use of payroll cards and direct deposit as ...

Obamacare is the law of the land.... We're going to be living with Obamacare for the foreseeable future." - Representative Paul Ryan, Speaker of the House, March 24, 2017 On March 24, 2017, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan pulled the American Health Care Act from consideration by the House of ...

Overview. Employees with valid concealed weapons permits now have the right to bring their licensed firearms into company parking lots.  Employers can still prohibit employees from carrying weapons into company-owned buildings and in company-owned vehicles.   The Details.  ...

Overview.  On April 20, 2017, we reported that Arkansas (March 24, 2017), Iowa (March 30, 2017), and South Carolina (April 5, 2017), were three of the latest states to pass laws prohibiting local jurisdictions from passing their own minimum wage and employee benefits laws (this includes ...

Overview.  On May 4, 2017, Vermont amended its Fair Employment Practices Act (VFEP) to prohibit an employer from failing or refusing to reasonably accommodate an employee’s pregnancy related condition.  Vermont joins the eighteen states from New Jersey to California, that have ...

Overview.  Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe has signed into law HB 2113, amending its existing data breach notification law. Effective Date.  July 1, 2017.   Overview.  Virginia’s existing data breach notification law contains a provision requiring individuals or ...