Federal Alerts

In furtherance of a practice reinstituted earlier this year, the DOL’s Wage Hour Division (WHD) issued Opinion Letter FLSA 2018-25 which provides guidance to employers paying exempt employees on an hourly, daily, or shift basis by addressing the requirement in 29 C.F.R. Section 541.604(b) that a “reasonable relationship” exist between an exempt employee’s guaranteed amount and the amount actually earned.

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has indefinitely stayed the deadline for compliance with the pay data collection aspects of the revised EEO-1 form.

The Department of Labor has released its annual Health and Welfare Fringe Benefits Rate adjustment for 2017-18, announcing two separate rates for the Service Contract Act.

For reporting in 2018 and going forward, government contractors will gain the efficiency of pulling a single data snapshot as of December 31 for reporting on both EEO-1 and VETS-4212 reports.  

As we reported last week, a district court in Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking the US Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule which sought to raise the required salary level to qualify for the white collar exemptions. With this ruling, the regulations will not go into effect on December 1, 2016.

As part of our commitment to providing you with guidance on this development we have prepared a Special Report which includes frequently asked questions, key decision points, sample employee communications and a link to the previously announced Jackson Lewis, P.C. webcast which is now available on demand. Click here to access the Special Report.

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration’s (“OSHA”)’s final rule regarding electronic reporting of work-related injuries and illnesses also requires employers to modify post-accident drug testing policies.