Certain Minnesota employers will be required to disclose starting salary ranges, or a fixed pay rate, in all job postings beginning January 1, 2025. This new requirement, signed into law by Governor Tim Walz on May 17, 2024,...more
5/22/2024
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Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has now officially signed into law a bill including provisions that will prohibit employment noncompetition agreements. MN SF 3035, signed by Governor Walz on May 24, 2023, restricts employers from...more
5/31/2023
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Non-Compete Agreements ,
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In 2022, health and safety agencies' focus continued to shift away from the near-constant COVID-related discussions of the past few years. COVID-19 is not in the rearview mirror, but the Biden Administration's comprehensive...more
1/10/2023
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In prior alerts, we detailed the scope of the interim final rule issued by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS) announced by the Occupational Safety and Health...more
1/14/2022
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National Federation of Independent Business v Department of Labor and OSHA ,
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At long last, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) issued its Emergency Temporary Standard (ETS), after the Office of Management and Budget concluded stakeholder meetings on Wednesday, June 9. ...more
6/15/2021
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In response to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) May 13 update of two key guidance documents that now show fully vaccinated people no longer need to wear a mask or physically distance, local and state...more
5/17/2021
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As mandated in President Biden's January 21 Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety, the Department of Labor (DOL) on March 12 issued the latest piece of the puzzle with a National Emphasis Program –...more
As mandated in President Biden's Executive Order on Protecting Worker Health and Safety, on January 29, OSHA issued a new guidance document, Protecting Workers: Guidance on Mitigating and Preventing the Spread of COVID-19 in...more
2/2/2021
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On January 25, 2019, OSHA published a final rule amending its recordkeeping regulations related to electronic submission of employee injury information. The final rule eliminates the requirement for employers with 250 or more...more
Returning to its long-standing practice of issuing opinion letters (which had ceased in 2010), and after reissuing 17 previously withdrawn opinion letters on January 5, 2018, the Department of Labor (DOL) yesterday issued...more
4/16/2018
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States and localities increasingly banning salary history inquiries -
The latest development in the law surrounding use of employee and applicant salary history data provides further reason for employers to reconsider the...more
4/13/2018
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Employers who ask applicants about their salary history should be wary of a significant increase in state and local legislation barring this question. Over the past year, numerous states and localities have enacted such laws...more
9/1/2017
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Pay Gap ,
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