Topic
Wages
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The Right Coast
Employers Forced to Raise Wages by Most in at Least 20 Years: Whole Power Balance Has Changed | Wolf Street
Companies are now announcing this on a daily basis: They re raising wages, and by a lot. Some companies are raising wages in reaction to the threat of unionization. And…
Hermann Law Our Blog
North Carolina Enhances Worker Protections
North Carolina workers recently received enhanced protections as the North Carolina legislature passed several amendments to the North Carolina Wage and Hour Act — N.C. Gen. Stat. 95-25.1, et seq.…
The Faculty Lounge
How Can Workers Get More Pay? Two Articles in Today’s News
Eric Posner has an excellent essay in today's New York Times -- "You Deserve a Bigger Paycheck; Here's How You Might Get It" -- explaining how employers' monopsony power depresses…
Wage & Hour Developments
California “Regular Rate of Pay” Refresher
By Perkins Coie
In California, the “regular rate of pay” is a term of art. Calculating it is not necessarily straightforward and much of the law in this area is counterintuitive, so employers…
New York City Law Blog
Spotting and stopping wage theft tactics
Every worker deserves to be paid a full and fair wage. Unfortunately, workers across New York do not always receive their full and fair wage due to wage theft. Wage…
New York City Law Blog
Should your employer pay you while you are on military leave?
When people think of wage disputes, they often think of minimum wage violations or unpaid overtime. However, wage disputes can also arise in other contexts, such as when employers fail…
Wage & Hour Developments
Tips Anyone? The Department of Labor Proposed Changes to Tip Credits
By Jill L. Ripke, Perkins Coie
On June 21, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to limit the amount of non-tip producing work that a tipped employee can perform…
WSNYC Blog: The Latest in Employment Law
Is Your Employer Paying You Properly? Schedule a Free Consultation to Find Out!
The post Is Your Employer Paying You Properly? Schedule a Free Consultation to Find Out! appeared first on Law Office of Christopher Q. Davis.
International Financial Law Prof Blog
Labor market disruption & COVID-19 support measures contribute to widespread falls in taxes on wages in 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has resulted in the largest decrease in taxes on wages since the global financial crisis of 2008-09, according to a new OECD report. Taxing Wages 2021 shows that…
The Contractor's Perspective
The Biden Infrastructure Plan and The Davis Bacon Act
It’s coming. From all outward signs, it appears that the Biden Administration may be planning to use the “American Jobs Plan” – otherwise known as the proposed infrastructure plan –…