On January 23, 2025, the Washington Supreme Court held employers who pay their employees less than twice the minimum wage cannot prohibit them from working second jobs, subject to a few, limited exceptions. Employers who...more
2/6/2025
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Duty of Loyalty ,
Employee Rights ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Contract ,
Employment Litigation ,
Minimum Wage ,
Moonlighting ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
State Labor Laws ,
WA Supreme Court ,
Wage and Hour
In wrongful termination cases in the U.S., the primary source of liability for employers is an employee’s alleged lost wages. Under U.S. law, an employee who is terminated for a discriminatory or a retaliatory reason is...more
Several U.S. states have been adopting more complex pay transparency laws and stricter equal pay statutes that prohibit employers from paying two employees differently to perform the same role based on factors such as race or...more
In order to address income disparities and employer discrimination, a growing number of jurisdictions in the U.S. have implemented salary transparency laws that not only require disclosure of certain salary information during...more
Figuring out when you have to pay employees for travel time can be tricky in any state. A Washington Court of Appeals just held that the rules for determining when travel time is compensable are significantly more employee...more
Two former employees of Cresco Labs have filed a collective and class action complaint in Illinois federal court, alleging that their employer failed to compensate its employees for time spent putting on and taking off...more
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a proposed rule addressing the definition of “independent contractor” in the context of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Canadian companies with a presence in the...more
A recent trend in U.S. employment law has been the adoption of stricter and stricter tests for when a worker may be classified as an independent contractor rather than an employee. Independent contractor relationships are...more
Last week, Washington signed into law two new employment laws that may have significant impacts on many Washington employers: a salary history ban and restrictions on non-compete covenants.
Salary History Ban -
On May...more
5/20/2019
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Equal Pay ,
Garden Leave ,
Governor Inslee ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Independent Contractors ,
Moonlighting ,
Non-Compete Agreements ,
Restrictive Covenants ,
Salary/Wage History ,
Wage and Hour
The EEOC has long required employers with more than 100 employees or employers that are federal contractors with 50 or more employees to submit an EEO-1 report every year. The EEO-1 is a compliance survey that requires...more
4/29/2019
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EEO-1 ,
Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) ,
Federal Contractors ,
Filing Deadlines ,
Gender-Based Pay Discrimination ,
Pay Data ,
Pay Gap ,
Reporting Requirements ,
Stays ,
Vacated ,
Wage and Hour
In the United States, employers are required to pay employees overtime (1.5 times the employee’s hourly rate) for hours worked over 40 per week. In some states, such as California, employers are required to pay overtime if...more
8/25/2017
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Canada ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Exempt-Employees ,
Misclassification ,
Multinationals ,
Non-Exempt Employees ,
Over-Time ,
Unfair Labor Practices ,
Wage and Hour ,
White-Collar Exemptions
During the Obama administration, the Department of Labor issued guidance letters intended to crack down on the misclassification of employees as independent contractors. On Wednesday, June 7, the DOL announced that it is...more