Department of Labor will publish a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on July 15, 2022, to implement the requirements of Executive Order 14055, “Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts.” The proposal would benefit workers who perform work on service contracts by generally requiring ...
Re: Proposed Rule, Department of Labor; Employee or Independent Contractor Classification under the Fair Labor Standards Act; Fed. Reg. 62218; RIN 1235-AA3487 (Oct. 13, 2022) Dear Ms. Looman: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce (the “Chamber...
The Fair Labor Standards Act, which was passed originally in 1938, guaranteed a minimum wage, prohibited child labor laws, and granted overtime of “time-and-a-half pay” for anyone working over 40 hours in a single work week time. Since the act’s adoption, it has undergone many amendm...
On July 27, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published in the Federal Register a proposed amendment to the qualified professional asset manager (QPAM) class prohibited transaction exemption 84-14 (PTE 84-14 or QPAM Exemption), which would make it ...
Plan fiduciaries may wish to request that service providers share the results of the annual risk assessments and annual audit reports. If a service provider is unwilling (or unable) to provide these reports (and the service provider’s contract does not afford the plan fiduciary a r...
Businesses across Mississippi and the nation should plan to comply with a new rule from the Department of Labor (DOL), set to take effect on March 11, 2024, revising the way in which employers analyze who is an employee and who is an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Ac...
Standards Act (FLSA), the FMLA, the Employee Polygraph Protection Act (EPPA), Section 14(c) of the FLSA (regarding the employment of certain workers with disabilities at special minimum wage rates) and the Service Contract Act (SCA) (which applies to certain federal contractors and ...
On April 14, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a three-part package providing long-needed fiduciary guidance on plan cybersecurity. The package includes suggestions for hiring a service provider, cybersecurity program best practices and online security ...
Department of Labor is responsible for the enforcement of wage laws that regulate the wage practices of public contractors and subcontractors. Pertinent laws are the Fair Labor Standards Act, Davis-Bacon Act, Service Contract Act, Contract Work Hours and Safety Standards Act, and Walsh-Healey ...
On March 1, 2017, the DOL announced a proposed extension of the applicability dates of the fiduciary rule and related exemptions, including the Best Interest Contract Exemption, from April 10 to June 9, 2017.10Then, in late May 2017, then-newly appointed DOL Secretary Alexander Acosta, writing...