February 26, 2024
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: February 2024 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents its latest update of workplace-related state and local developments that have occurred since its December 2023 Interstate memo and the 2023 round-up that it published in January. Many of the laws discussed relate to new state or local provisions regarding paid leave and pay transparency. CWC members can read...
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February 22, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

CWC’s Filing Guide for California’s 2023 Pay Data Reporting Requirements

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has updated its guide for meeting California’s annual pay data reporting requirements. The new version covers the rules for filing 2023 calendar year data, which must be submitted to California’s Civil Rights Department (CRD) by May 8, 2024. CWC’s guide provides tips on identifying the data that must be...
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February 06, 2024
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Category: Compliance Reporting and Recordkeeping

California’s 2023 Pay Data Reporting Includes Revised Guidance, Data Specifications

The California Civil Rights Department (CRD) has opened California’s mandated Pay Data Reporting cycle for calendar year 2023. New requirements are likely to increase the burden on covered employers. They still must report the total number of workers by race, ethnicity, sex, pay band, and federal EEO-1 job category, but within that total, employers now also must identify three additional data...
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January 17, 2024
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Category: Arbitration and Dispute Resolution

Federal Court Cements Ban On California’s Latest Attempt To Outlaw Employment Arbitration

California cannot prohibit employers from requiring employees to sign arbitration agreements as a condition of employment, under a federal court order entered January 2, 2024. The permanent injunction came in a lawsuit from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce challenging a 2019 California law that effectively barred mandatory arbitration of employment disputes. The order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern...
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January 11, 2024
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Category: Data and Statistics

CWC’s Round-Up of Notable 2023 State and Local Employment Law Developments

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, has compiled a year-end digest of notable state and local employment law developments on which we reported during 2023.  The digest briefly describes the issues and links to related CWC memos that discuss the issues in more detail. If a state is not listed, that means CWC did not...
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January 03, 2024
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Category: State and Local Law

Notable New State Workplace Laws Going Into Effect on January 1, 2024

Many state workplace laws discussed in our Interstate memos are taking effect at the beginning of the year. Therefore, we have compiled a digest of the most notable new state laws, as well as two local laws from Chicago and Seattle. Members of the Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, can read more here.
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December 20, 2023
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Category: Compensation

Colorado Issues Regulatory Guidance on Its Recently Amended Pay Transparency Law

The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment (CDLE) has issued regulatory guidance on the state’s recently amended and highly prescriptive Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The amendments go into effect January 1, 2024. Since 2021, the law has required covered employers operating in Colorado to: (1) include pay ranges in job postings for all jobs that could be performed in the...
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December 12, 2023
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Category: FLSA

Six States Will Have Overtime Minimum Salary Thresholds Higher Than Fed as of 1/1/24

To be exempt from overtime pay under federal law, an executive, administrative, or professional employee must be paid a weekly salary of at least $684 (equivalent to an annual salary of $35,568), regardless of the employee’s job duties. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does not preempt individual states from enacting their own more expansive wage and hour laws, however, and...
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December 05, 2023
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Category: State and Local Law

CWC Interstate: December 2023 Update

The Center for Workplace Compliance (CWC), our affiliated nonprofit membership association, presents its latest update of state and local workplace compliance requirements, which covers developments that have occurred since the previous update in October. CWC members can read more here.
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October 23, 2023
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Category: Compensation

Recent Equal Pay Case Illustrates How Federal and State Law Outcomes Can Vary

A recent equal pay discrimination ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit serves as a reminder that a court can reach different outcomes depending on whether it is applying federal law or a more expansive state law. In Eisenhauer v. Culinary Institute of America, a female professor for the Culinary Institute of America sued under both New York...
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