During its 2019 legislative session, the Indiana General Assembly authorized the creation of a new Office of Administrative Law Proceedings (OALP). See H.E.A. 1223 (2019) (codified primarily at Ind. Code ch. 4-15-10.5)....more
Employers that submit an annual Employer Information Report EEO-1 must submit 2017 and 2018 Component 2 pay data by September 30, 2019, according to a notice recently posted on the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s...more
On March 21, 2018, Senate Enrolled Act 52 was signed into law (Public Law 153), legalizing the sale and use of cannabis-derived CBD oil (with a THC level of 0.3 percent or lower) throughout Indiana. The Act’s passage raises...more
On April 12, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) Wage and Hour Division issued opinion letter FLSA2018-19 addressing whether a non-exempt employee’s 15-minute rest breaks taken every hour for the employee’s own...more
On August 27, 2015, a divided (3-2) National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) changed the standard for joint employment under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) in its lengthy Browning-Ferris Industries of California, Inc....more
In July 2014, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) took the position, in controversial Enforcement Guidance, that the federal Pregnancy Discrimination Act (PDA) requires employers to treat women with normal...more
On July 3, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) handed down a decision in the case of Consolidated Communications d/b/a Illinois Consolidated Telephone Co. and Local 702, Int'l Brotherhood of Electrical Workers,...more
Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed House Bill 1005 into law on March 25, 2014. The digest for this bill was titled "Government reduction," and it covered an assortment of topics. Practically buried at the end was a small but...more