Key Issues, Developments and Strategies Affecting Your Workforce
New Reporting Requirements:
OSHA has issued a final rule that modifies recordkeeping and reporting requirements for employers. The most significant change requires an employer to notify OSHA within twenty-four (24) hours of when an employee suffers a work-related, in-patient hospitalization, amputation, or loss of an eye. Under the prior rule, employers were only required to…
Recently, President Barack Obama signed an Executive Order entitled “Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces,” which will affect approximately 24,000 businesses. Businesses seeking to obtain federal procurement contracts for goods and services, including construction, valued at over $500,000 (“federal contractors”) must comply with a number of new requirements.
Likely most significant is that covered federal contractors…
The Department of Labor (“DOL”) has followed through on a directive given by President Obama earlier this year regarding the collection of compensation data by federal contractors and subcontractors. On April 8, 2014, President Obama issued a memorandum entitled Advancing Pay Equality Through Compensation Data Collection, which directed the DOL to propose, within 120…
Unions, in order to increase membership, are now attempting in some cases to represent employees in small “micro-units” as opposed to the traditional approach of representing employees throughout an employer’s facility. Micro-units come into existence when unions “pick off” employees in certain departments, and claim that these departments should be a bargaining unit apart from…
