The U.S. Department of Labor recently issued a letter explaining certain employer practices that violate the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). In case you did not know, the FMLA provides eligible employees unpaid, job-protected medical leave for up to 12 weeks (or 26 weeks if military related) in a 12-month period for an employee’s […]
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Under the federal law, the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, employees paid a salary equal to or more than $23,660 annually ($455 or more per week) and who perform certain job duties are not entitled to overtime pay. If all goes as expected, that will soon change. In March 2019, the U.S. Department of
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Up for a vote this Congressional session is the Equality Act, which would make significant changes to Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. The Equality Act broadens the definition of prohibited categories of discrimination or segregation in places of public accommodations to include sexual orientation, and gender identity. In addition, the Act
Finally, the long-awaited changes to the federal overtime regulations have been announced, with the federal definition for overtime being hours worked over 40 hours per workweek. What does the new rule change? Now salaried employees who receive less than $47,476 annually will be entitled to overtime pay in most cases, where previously employees who received
A click of the mouse, forwarding an email, downloading a file – in just seconds you can take, copy, share, or post your employer’s confidential information, otherwise known as “trade secrets.” But be aware, those few seconds can be costly under the new federal Defend Trade Secrets Act, which became effective May 11, 2016. As
With more and more diverse and multi-lingual employees in the workplace, employers might institute a workplace rule requiring employees to speak only English in the workplace. Be wary of these policies as they can constitute a form of national origin discrimination in violation of federal and state laws. An English-only policy will be found to
Caregivers employed by third-party agencies are entitled to overtime, court rules. Click on the case below to review the court’s decision: Home Care Association of America, et al., v. Department of Labor, Wage & Hour Division.
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The Workplace Bullying Institute reports that 35% of working adults have reported being bullied at work, and 40% of those targeted never tell their employers according to the 2010 & 2007 U.S. Workplace Bullying Surveys. Also, check out the 2021 WBI U.S. Workplace Bullying Survey. Is one of them you? Currently in Florida, most bullying is legal, since “Rebecca’s Law“,
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Last week in Delva v. The Continental Group, Inc., the Supreme Court of Florida held that the Florida state law prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of sex includes pregnancy discrimination. Significantly, in support of its analysis, the Court recognized the obvious—namely that pregnancy is “a natural condition unique to females and a primary characteristic of the female
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Our first blog in the Job-Protected Leave series addresses Florida law and taking time from work due to domestic or sexual violence. Florida Statute §741.313 provides for up to three days of job-protected leave every 12 months to employees who need time off to deal with protection from domestic or sexual violence. It covers things like seeing an attorney, getting a restraining order, going
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