Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to the United States as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
USA: New York State enacts Warehouse Worker Protection Act (WWPA)
The WWPA covers employers that employ 100 or more employees at a single warehouse distribution centre, or 500 or more employees at multiple warehouse distribution centres …
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USA: Strike activity rose by 50% between 2021 and 2022
The growth of strike activity has clearly been encouraged by labor shortages …
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USA: Union membership rate hits all-time low of 10.1% in 2022
Although union membership grew in absolute terms last year, it fell from 10 …
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USA: EEOC issues guidance on auditory workplace disability
Hearing impairments, to the point of deafness or near deafness, currently affect 15% of all adults in the USA …
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USA: Should a damages tort trump the National Labour Relations Act?
It has long been a source of injustice for employers that if an industrial dispute leads to damage of their property they are powerless to recover the costs because a union’s ‘concerted activity’ is regarded by the law as sacrosanct …
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USA: FTC steps in to issue a proposed rule prohibiting noncompete agreements
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is not the normal avenue for introducing employment legislation and its proposal will probably be widely challenged on those grounds …
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USA: Pending law in New Jersey to limit post-employment restrictive covenants
A Bill before the State legislature (AB 3715/SB 1410) will seek to make the use of non-competition, non-solicitation and confidentiality/non-disclosure clauses as conditions of employment, or part of severance agreements, so prohibitive that they would only be resorted to in extreme circumstances …
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USA: Walmart to raise minimum wage for U.S. hourly workers to $14
Walmart wage rise brings general retail workers to an average of $17 …
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USA: Illinois has amended ODRISA
The ‘One day rest in seven Act’ (ODRISA) has been modified in several important ways …
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USA: Diwali days time-off for families in New York (2023)
Staff who are parents and of Indian origin who work in New York city will probably wish to save any annual leave they have this year for Diwali …
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USA: Illinois Crown Act now in force
With the act comes a new definition of race to cover ‘traits associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hair styles such as braids, locks and twists’ …
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USA: Fall in the hours worked by top-earning men
During 2022, those male employees earning top decile salaries worked, on average, 77 hours less than before the pandemic in 2019 …
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USA: Triple health risk warning
There has been a 50% increase in hospitalizations across the USA in recent weeks, not only due to a resurgence of COVID-19, but also flu and RSA …
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USA: 23 States raised their minimum wage rates on 1st January 2023
In fact, some 26 States are already scheduled to introduce improvements sometime this year, with Washington DC having the highest State minimum, at $16 …
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USA: Legislation to look forwards to in 2023
The Department of Labor continues to review the current exclusion of executive, administrative and professional employees from FLSA overtime rules …
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