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THE MOST IMPORTANT DOL GUIDANCE FOR YOU TO KNOW REGARDING EXPANDED FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE AND PAID SICK LEAVE

The Most Important DOL Guidance for You to Know regarding Expanded Family Medical Leave and Paid Sick Leave

| 2020
APRIL 2, 2020 On April 1, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a temporary rule to implement the public health emergency and paid sick leave provisions.  The regulations are consistent with the questions and answers previously issued, and discussed below, as well as the webinar discussed below.  The most important clarification in th...
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U.S. Department of Labor Issues Final Overtime Rule

| 2019
On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor announced its long-anticipated Final Rule on exemptions and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).  The new rule takes effect January 1, 2020. Unlike its Obama-era predecessor, which was challenged in court and enjoined by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, the new Final ...
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Company Raided in Mississippi Immigration Matter Fights Back

| 2019
On August 7, 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) personnel arrested about 680 persons during seven food processing plant raids in Mississippi.  Published reports indicated that 243 employees were arrested at the Morton, Mississippi plant of Koch Foods of Mississippi.  Three other companies were also raided, some at more than one...
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Get Ready to Submit Detailed Pay Data to EEOC by September 30

Get Ready to Submit Detailed Pay Data to EEOC by September 30

| 2019
Thanks to a lawsuit, an Obama-era initiative requiring large employers to submit detailed pay data sorted by race and gender has been revived.  Employers with more than 100 employees must complete a disclosure form and upload this data for 2017 and 2018, which may be used against them, no later than September 30, 2019.
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Poultry Plant Raids: The Rest of the Story

Poultry Plant Raids: The Rest of the Story

| 2019
On August 7, 2019, seven food processing plants in Mississippi were the subject of “raids" conducted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).  The Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security said the raids had been planned for approximately a year.  In some respects, such raids are hardly news:  ICE conducted enforcement acti...
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New Salary Threshold Proposed for Overtime Exemption

| 2019
After what must be record-setting deliberations, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has published plans to raise the salary threshold – the amount a salaried administrative, executive, or professional employee must be paid in order to qualify as exempt from overtime – from $455 per week ($23,660 annually) to $679 per week ($35,308 annually). This is the m...
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OSHA ALERT - Revised Final Rule on Electronic Record keeping Issued

| 2019
On January 24, 2019, OSHA issued a notice in the Federal Register (84 FR 380) amending the recordkeeping regulation by rescinding the requirement for establishments with 250 or more employees to electronically submit information from OSHA Forms 300 and 301. These establishments will continue to be required to maintain those records on-site, and OSHA will ...
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Employment Items to Consider for Early 2019

Employment Items to Consider for Early 2019

| 2019
Because of the enormous increase in legal claims and disputes over the past few years, Wimberly & Lawson suggests that employers should consider the following projects in early 2019 as they are quite important and timely.  Wimberly & Lawson would be pleased to provide fixed fee estimates for each project or otherwise advise employers in these...
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New Georgia Department of Labor Initiative Supports Immigration Compliance

New Georgia Department of Labor Initiative Supports Immigration Compliance

| 2018
Effective January 1, 2019, the Georgia Department of Labor (GDOL) will reject Quarterly Tax and Wage Reports containing certain invalid Social Security numbers (SSN) and may assess delinquency fees against employers failing to submit complete or correct reports by the due date.  However, an employer submitting a corrected report after the due date wh...
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Eleventh Circuit Affirms Warrant Quash: OSHA 300 Logs Alone Not "Probable Cause"

| 2018
In a decision, USA v. Mar-Jac Poultry, Inc., published October 9, 2018, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed a District Court decision quashing an inspection warrant that the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) had sought to expand a limited incident inspection to a “wall-to-wall” examination ...
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Poultry Processing Plants and Anti-Terrorism Regulations

| 2018
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) promulgated regulations in 2007 for the purpose of preventing access by terrorists to chemical facilities that manufacture, store or use chemicals of interest (COI).  The regulations are titled “Chemical Facility Anti-Terrorism Standards” and can be found at 6 C.F.R. Part 27. Poultry processing companies are...
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