On Friday, June 24, 2024, the business day before the Biden Department of Labor’snew overtime rulewas scheduled to take effect, a federal district judge granted the State of Texas’s motion for a preliminary injunction to postpone the effective date of the rule, concluding...
Walsh, a Texas federal court case where the plaintiffs sued the DOL for forcing them “to expend additional time and resources monitoring … to assure the advisors are focusing only on pecuniary considerations and not collateral ESG factors … and that oil and gas companies ...
Texas defaults to federal law regarding breaks for all workers. If an employer chooses to provide a meal break, it must be paid only if it lasts less than 20 minutes. Breaks lasting longer than 30 minutes are classified as meal periods and do not need to be paid as long as the employee...
Texas$7.25 Utah$7.25 Vermont$14.01 Virginia$12.41 Washington$16.66 West Virginia$8.75 ($7.25 for employers with less than sixnonexempt employeesworking at any one separate, distinct, and permanent work location) Wisconsin$7.25 Wyoming**$7.25 ($5.15 for employers not covered by the Fair Labor Stan...
Across the nation, the congenital syphilis rate was highest in states in the South and Southwest. In 2021, Arizona had the highest rate, at about 232 cases per 100,000 births, followed by New Mexico (205), Louisiana (191), Mississippi (182) and Texas (182). Nationwide in 2021, 102 ...
Texas:Governmental agencies, or public employers, have the option to offer compensatory time ("comp time") to nonexempt employees instead of cash compensation. Comp time is granted on a time-and-a-half basis for overtime hours worked, subject to certain conditions. Once an employee accumulates...
Austin, Texas Dallas, Texas San Antonio, Texas Seattle, Washington Tacoma, Washington As you can see, some of the cities above are located in states with paid sick leave laws. City and state laws may have different rules, like maximum accrual limits and which employers the law applies to. ...
Yet 21 states began the year with less than the amount recommended to remain solvent in an average recession, according to a U.S. Department of Labor report. At the bottom of the solvency list are many of the most populous states —California,Texas, New York,Illinois, Ohio andMassachusetts...
Just days after Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton accused the state House speaker of presiding over the chamber while drunk and called on him to resign, a GOP-led state House ethics panel heard explosive testimony from investigators detailing what they described as years of misconduct by the attor...
A federal judge in Texas immediately blocked the action and it was never revived. 1:00 p.m. 19:15:28, March 8, 2024 Fact Check: Biden on US trade relationship with China From CNN's David Goldman In his State of the Union address, President Joe Biden said that the gap between...