Delegates in the Maryland General Assembly have re-introduced legislation that would repeal the proposed special use assessment of country clubs and golf courses for property tax purposes. The bill is aimed at providing the state with additional tax revenue that would be re-directed to public services. The original
Today, Judge Sean D. Jordan of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas granted summary judgement to the State of Texas and a coalition of business groups in their lawsuit against the Department of Labor’s (DOL) regulation expanding overtime eligibility to millions of workers.
This morning, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) made its proposed rule on “Heat Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings” available to the public on the Federal Register. Interested parties will have 120 days to comment on the rule. The text
A federal judge for the U.S. District Court of the Eastern District of Texas on Friday granted the state of Texas’ request for an injunction that would temporarily block implementation of the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final overtime rule. The emergency relief is limited to
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division will offer a series of online seminars to provide a general overview of requirements for employers to comply with the agency’s updated overtime rule, Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees, which
Today, the Department of Labor finalized its regulation entitled Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees covering exemptions from the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA’s) minimum wage and overtime regulations. The final rule increases the standard salary level as well as the
The Department of Labor (DOL) and Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released a final rule amending its “Representatives of Employers and Employees” regulation to clarify that employees can authorize a third-party employee representative to accompany an OSHA Compliance Safety and Health Officer (CSHO) during
The Department of Labor (DOL) yesterday released a final rule amending the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to clarify when workers should be classified as independent contractors or employees, who can receive full minimum wage and overtime, and other protections under the FLSA. The rule implements the
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), in consultation with the Department of Labor (DOL), has released a temporary final rule that authorizes the release of 64,716 supplemental H-2B visas for FY 2024. The supplemental visas will be distributed in the following allocations: Now – March 31, 2024:
On August 30, 2023, the Department of Labor (DOL) released a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking that would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to extend mandatory overtime pay to certain salaried workers. A similar rule proposed by the Obama administration to raise the overtime salary