Recent news
Latest items of recent news relevant to the United States as reported in our fortnightly newswire ‘Dernières nouvelles’.
USA: End to EEO-1 component 2 pay data reporting for now
The ongoing battle about the new component 2 element in the annual EE0 -1 report to the EEOC rumbles on …
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USA: House approves union rights PRO Act
“The Protecting the Right to Organise Act (PRO Act)” has passed the Federal House of Representatives by a vote of 224 to 194 …
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USA: Boeing and SPEEA announce a tentative agreement on four-year contract extension
Reflecting the need to return the 737 MAX to service, Boeing has just agreed a four-year extension of their deal with the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace (SPEEA) covering over 18,000 employees based in Washington and Oregon …
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USA: EEOC’s 2019 efficiency
Last year the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) received 123,000 complaints concerning discrimination, of which 31,000 became formal discrimination cases …
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USA: House removes ERA ratification deadline
As we have previously pointed out, at the end of last year, the Equal Rights Amendment to the US Constitution appeared to have been finally achieved by the ratification of Virginia – the 38th state to back it …
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USA: Kari’s law on emergency notifications is now in force
Kari’s law on emergency notifications is now in force …
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USA: FTC extends deadline for comments on workshop addressing non-compete clauses in employment contracts
Pressure is building on the FTC to introduce anti-trust measures to limit the use of non-compete clauses in employment contracts …
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USA: California delays employer sexual harassment training requirements to 2021
California Governor Gavin Newsome has signed law SB-778 that extends the deadline for commencing sexual harassment training to the 1st of January 2021 …
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USA: Spring 2020 registration deadline for employers using PEOs
Over the last 3 years, the Oregon state-run pensions programme Oregonsaves has been progressively introduced to employees whose employers do not provide a qualified retirement plan …
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USA: H-IB season is fast approaching
The H-IB season is fast approaching and this year things have been happily simplified, although filing dates and methods have changed …
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USA: Walmart raises starting hourly wage to $12 in 500 stores, as part of a test
Walmart, the biggest private-sector employer in the USA, has raised starting hourly pay rates for the newly created “team associate” role from US$11 to US$12 across roughly 500 stores …
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USA: Figures for job growth
The US Department of Labor headline figure for job growth last month was 225,000 …
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USA: DOL proposes 4-factor test for joint employment liability
The Department of Labor has issued a new 4-factor balancing test to determine if an employer has, directly or indirectly, joint accountability for an employee under the FLSA …
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USA: Supreme Court upholds Minneapolis minimum wage
Back in 2017 Minneapolis City Council was the first mid-western city to vote for a $15 an hour minimum wage …
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USA: Virginia finalizes its passage of the Equal Rights Amendment
Although the Federal Congress originally approved the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) in 1972, it never achieved the necessary 75% majority amongst individual states – until now …
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