On October 17, 2016, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued its Strategic Enforcement Plan for Fiscal Years 2017-2021 (SEP). The SEP outlines the areas in equal employment enforcement on which the agency will focus during the next four years.
Employers often use social media during the hiring process. However, employers should use caution and follow certain guidelines to avoid a number of legal pitfalls.
On December 1, 2016, revised regulations addressing the “white collar” overtime exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will go into effect. The new regulations double the minimum salary an employer has to pay to an employee to designate him or her as “exempt” from overtime pay.
Employers with at least one employee that do business in Montgomery County, Maryland, will be required to provide covered employees paid leave.
Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act provides employees the right to engage in “concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid or protection.”
Veterans from the post-9/11 era are having a hard time finding work in Maryland, with an unemployment rate more than double the state’s overall rate. A bill to help struggling veterans secure work passed the Maryland House of Delegates in February by a nearly unanimously vote and is currently under consideration in the state Senate.
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