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Employers who violate the Illinois amendment to the State’s Wage Payment and Collection Act to pay damages of 5% of any underpayment of wages, compensation, or wage supplements, to employees as defined by the federal Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA.
Inman Connect Two former Howard Hanna agents the brokerage sued last month have filed counterclaims alleging Howard Hanna is withholding their compensation after they were recruited by rival Compass. In a March 23 amended complaint, Pittsburgh-based Howard Hanna alleged New York City-based Compass aided and abetted three former Howard Hanna agents — Michael Hornung, Jennifer Crouse and Leah George — to breach non-compete, non-solicitation and confidentiality provisions in the agents’ contracts with Howard Hanna and steal the brokerage’s trade secrets in order to burnish Compass’s i...
For years, West Virginia businesses have had to consider varying standards for determining whether a worker is considered an employee or an independent contractor by state agencies. The...
To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Beginning on July 1, 2021, Virginia employers will be subject to a new state overtime law that provides more stringent overtime requirements than those contained in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). On March 31, 2021, Governor Ralph Northam signed the Virginia Overtime Wage Act into law. Like the FLSA, the new Virginia law obligates employers to pay 1.5 times a non-exempt employee’s regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 hours in each workweek. Unlike the FLSA, the Virginia law now specifies exactly h...
By Erin Beck Mountain State Spotlight Mar 11, 2021 ( Editor’s note: This story was originally published by Mountain State Spotlight. For more stories from Mountain State Spotlight, visit www.mountainstatespotlight.org.) Amid a global pandemic and economic crisis, state lawmakers are rushing through legislation that could make it harder for West Virginians to file for unemployment if they lose work and pay for medical care if they get sick on the job. West Virginians could also lose state-level protections that became especially important during the pandemic, like guarantees they...