Passed late last year, the Freelance Isn’t Free Act (the “Act”) is expected to go into effect on August 28, 2024. The Act extends protections for freelance workers across New York State and mirrors protections in New York City’s Freelance Isn’t Free Law.
The Act defines a freelance worker as any person or single-person
As many large employers in California have experienced, it is all too common to have separate employees file duplicative PAGA actions in separate courts covering the same alleged claims on behalf of the same group of employees. PAGA, of course, refers to the Private Attorneys General Act—a unique California law that allows an employee to
Last year, California enacted a law (SB 525) raising the minimum wage for many healthcare workers to as much as $25 per hour. The minimum wage hikes were scheduled to take effect June 1, 2024. However, California has a huge budget deficit, which makes compliance with the increased wages a challenge for the state. Because
California’s Private Attorneys General Act (“PAGA”) was passed in 2007 and has operated primarily as a means to provide massive revenue to the state and to Plaintiffs’ attorneys. Over the past decade or so, the statute has been the predominant vehicle for shakedown lawsuits against employers. Virtually every year, certain business-minded legislators introduce bills to
In October 2023, President Biden issued an Executive Order regarding the “Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence” and directed federal agencies to issue guidance on the increased use of Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). With regard to the use of AI in the workplace, the Order directed the U.S. Secretary of Labor to
On April 23, 2024, the federal Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued its final rule on the salary threshold for the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The rule provides for increases in minimum salary required for these types of employees to qualify as exempt from overtime pay requirements under federal
The minimum wage in Portland, Maine for 2024 is ordinarily $15.00. Due to a unique provision in Portland’s minimum wage law, though, the minimum wage increases to $22.50 for in-person work performed during a declared state of emergency.
On January 11, 2024 at 12:15 p.m., Governor Mills declared a state of emergency due to
California has a unique law that requires employers to provide new hires who are non-exempt from overtime with a “wage theft act notice” (a strangely named document) that provides the employee with specified information such as rate of pay, overtime rate, the employer’s name and address, pay day information, workers’ compensation information, and paid sick
Many state and local jurisdictions across the country will see moderate increases to their minimum wage rate on January 1, 2024. In fact, the current count of jurisdictions with a minimum wage increase on that date is a whopping 63! Most of these changes are the result of laws that provide for an automatic increase