Employers who are subject to the federal FMLA should be aware that the DOL has issued a new FMLA poster as of April 2016.
The link to the poster is:
https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/fmlaen.pdf.
Although the DOL website says that the February 2013 version of the poster “is still good and can be used to fulfill the posting requirement”, it nevertheless makes sense to replace it with this updated version.
Recently, Governor Mills signed into law LD 598, An Act to Prohibit Discrimination in Employment and School Based on Hair Texture or Hairstyle. The bill amends the public accommodation definition section of the Maine Human Rights Act to add “protective hairstyle”, defined as including braids, twists and locks. The Act further amends the definition section…
March 31, 2020 This is the second installment of reporting on the DOL’s Questions and Answers interpreting the FFCRA, which we address in increments. The question for today is whether the FFCRA allows for intermittent leave time. As a preliminary matter, paid sick leave for qualifying reasons related to COVID-19 must occur in full-day increments….
The EEOC recently released a Report of its “Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace”. The purpose of the report was to “move beyond the legal arena and gain insights from the worlds of social science, and practitioners on the ground, on how to prevent harassment in the workplace”. The…
This is a reminder/notification that late last week the US DOL announced that it had made mandatory changes to two workplace postings, the Federal Minimum Wage Poster and the Federal Employee Polygraph Protection Act Poster. Both must be posted as of August 1, 2016. The new Federal Minimum Wage Poster has revised information…
Referendum Question 4, approved by Maine voters in November, 2016, raised the Maine minimum wage to $9.00 per hour, effective on January 7, 2017, and to $10.00 per hour effective as of January 1, 2018, with more annual increases in later years. A consequence of that change was that the minimum salary in Maine for…
Referendum Question 4, approved by Maine voters in November, raised the Maine minimum wage to $9.00 per hour, effective on January 7, 2017. It also enacted a series of changes to the tip credit and minimum cash wages to tipped employees, the first of which will also go into effect on January 7, 2017. As…
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