Recent Updates

As part of our continuing commitment to help you prepare for the new Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations which will impact nearly all employers, we are presenting a complimentary webcast.

The U.S. Department of Labor and the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council have published the final guidance and regulations implementing the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order (E.O. 13673).  The Executive Order sets forth procedures requiring federal agency contracting officers to consider an employer’s record of workplace law compliance when awarding contracts and subcontracts valued at more than $500,000. Consistent with this goal, prospective and existing contractors on covered contracts are not only required to disclose administrative determinations, arbitral awards, and civil judgments resulting from violations of any one of 14 enumerated labor laws and their state law equivalents, but they are also required to comply with the Executive Order’s Paycheck Transparency requirements.

Please be reminded that you can take proactive steps at this time to help ensure that you will be in compliance with the new FLSA regulations come December 1, 2016.

The federal poster is being updated due to mandatory changes to the Minimum Wage/Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and Polygraph Protection.

The Employment Practices Liability Insurance policy, issued through Zurich American Insurance Company, has been renewed with an effective policy period beginning August 1, 2016. The Legal Defense Benefit continues to work in conjunction with the policy.

Section 6106 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) now requires long term care facilities to electronically submit direct care staffing information based on payroll and other auditable data. To streamline this effort, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) have developed a new system for facilities to submit their staffing and census information called the Payroll-Based Journal (PBJ). Employers must report total direct care hours worked (including agency and contract staff), employee hire and termination dates and facility census data. Click here to learn more.

This ordinance passed following a referendum vote on June 7, and will go into effect immediately following certification of the election results.  The certification process will likely conclude in mid-July 2016.