Overview: On May 29, 2018, the Duluth City Council passed an Earned Sick and Safe Time ordinance (Ordinance No. 10571). The Ordinance generally applies to any employer with five or more employees, regardless of whether they work in the city. The number of employees is determined based on the ...

Effective Date: July 1, 2018 Details: Background: Georgia has become one of 16 states in the country that bans the use of hand-held devices while driving. Governor Nathan Deal signed “Hands-Free Georgia Act” (House Bill 673) into law on May 2, 2018. The new law takes ...

Overview: A new Georgia law will require nursing home and other long-term care workers to submit to extensive background checks. Specifically, the new law will require care workers with “direct access” to seniors in long-term care facilities to pass a national background check. ...

Effective Date: May 8, 2018 Details: The state of Georgia has enacted legislation (SB 194) which amends the maximum amount of an employee’s disposable earnings that may be garnished to repay a debt. Effective May, 8, 2018, the maximum wages subject to garnishment are the lesser ...

Overview: Maryland has enacted the Disclosing Sexual Harassment in the Workplace Act of 2018 which prohibits contractual waivers of sexual harassment claims and imposes significant reporting requirements for certain Maryland employers as well. Effective Date: October 1, ...

Effective Date: September 2, 2018 Details: Under current Michigan law, employees paid on a monthly pay frequency must be paid on the 1st of the month following the month in which the wages were earned. For example, all wages earned in June must be paid by July 1. This law made it difficult ...

Overview: The Nevada Supreme Court has concluded that an employer may pay the lower of the state’s two-tier minimum wages if the employer offers health insurance at a cost to the employer in the equivalent of at least an additional dollar per hour in wages, and at a cost to the employee of ...

Overview: New Hampshire has amended its law against discrimination to include gender identity in the list of protected classes. Effective Date: July 8, 2018. Details: ”Gender identity" is defined under the law as "a person's gender-related identity, appearance, or behavior, ...

Effective Date: July 29, 2018 Details: New Hampshire has modified its pay frequency requirements. Previously, employers were required to pay all wages at regular pay periods not to exceed 14 days. The amendment now requires employers to pay all wages due to the employee within eight days ...

Overview: The City and County of San Francisco Office of Labor Standards Enforcement recently published “Rules Implementing the San Francisco Paid Sick Leave Ordinance. These rules are an update to the existing law which were adopted when the Paid Sick Leave Ordinance initially went into ...