Employment and Labor

This post is written by Rachel Felton. 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 [...]

This post was written by Rachel Felton. 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.  [...]

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 [...]

This month the Department of Labor announced a proposed rule change that will provide overtime pay to lower-salaried employees. Currently, the Fair Labor Standards Act permits companies to [...]

Last Friday, a federal jury sitting in Pittsburgh awarded more than $13 million to a plaintiff who alleged that her former employer discriminated against her on the basis of sex. Sandra Robertson [...]

In its recent March 25, 2015 decision, the Supreme Court, in Young v. United Parcel Service, Inc. took the side of a former UPS driver.  As a part-time driver for UPS, Peggy Young was required to [...]

Under federal law, employees do not have to be paid for time spent going through employer mandated security screenings designed to prevent employee theft. In the recent case of Integrity Staffing [...]