Author Archive for: "Rachel D. Felton"

Roofing companies grappling with a shortage of workers may turn to temporary staffing agencies for workers. Companies should make sure that the contract between their company and the staffing [...]

Last week, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, seeking to narrow the circumstances under which two or more separate employers may be joint-employers [...]

The United States Department of Labor (DOL) maintains Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) forms, including a notice of rights and responsibilities, a doctor’s certification, and a [...]

The fall of 2017 brought much attention to sexual harassment in the workplace. As legal counsel to small, medium and large employers, we saw an increase in the number of employees filing sexual [...]

Beginning on January 22, 2017, employers must use the new version of the Form I-9, marked 11/14/2016. Employers can face monetary penalties if they do not use the new Form I-9.  The Form I-9 can [...]

Yesterday, a federal judge blocked the Department of Labor’s regulation to increase the salary threshold for an employee to be exempt from overtime pay. This means that the new regulation [...]

On December 1, 2016, the required salary threshold for an employee to be exempt from overtime pay will increase from $23,660.00 per year ($455 per week) to $47,476.00 per year ($921 per week). [...]

Under current law, employers with 100 or more employees must submit EEO-1 reports to the EEOC on an annual basis to provide data on their employees’ ethnicity, race and sex by specified job [...]

The City of Pittsburgh’s new paid sick leave ordinance, which was set to take effect this month, has been struck down by the Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas. Judge Joseph M. James ruled [...]

The City of Pittsburgh has a new paid sick leave Ordinance which will require all employers that are situated or conducting business in Pittsburgh to provide paid sick leave to all full-time and [...]