Minimum Wage, Employer Liability Issues, Hotels

Rhode Island’s New Workplace Laws: Menopause Protections, “Captive Audience” Meeting Ban, Minimum Wage Hikes, and More

Fisher Phillips on 8/4/2025

Rhode Island employers must keep up with new workplace laws enacted this year, including some that have already taken effect. The state not only joined a growing number of states that prohibit so-called “captive audience”...more

Don’t Panic Just Yet – The 8 Things Los Angeles Hotels Need to Do to Comply with New Worker Protection Ordinance

Fisher Phillips on 7/12/2022

A new law set to take effect on August 6 will require hotels in the City of Los Angeles to implement new protections for certain hotel workers and raises the minimum wage at more hotels in the City of Los Angeles. Similar...more

Los Angeles Employers Beware! Minimum Wage and Sick Leave Changes Start July 1, 2022

CDF Labor Law LLP on 6/27/2022

All employers in Los Angeles should revisit employment practices to ensure compliance with local ordinances as many changes take effect on July 1, 2022. Effective July 1, 2022, the City of Los Angeles’ minimum wage will...more

Hospitality Employers Take Note: Numerous Local Increases to the Minimum Wage Take Effect Now

Epstein Becker & Green on 1/3/2020

…With the start of the New Year, employers in the hospitality sector should prepare for new state- and local- minimum wage increases for their non-exempt employees. To help multi-jurisdictional employers easily navigate...more

Avalanche of New Laws Create Additional Requirements for Illinois Employers

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 8/1/2019

Illinois employers must be cognizant of new Illinois laws including bans on salary history inquiries, restrictions on artificial intelligence interview programs, mandatory sexual harassment prevention training, limitations on...more

Employment Law Legends, Episode 1 – Employment Law Reborn: West Coast Hotel v. Parrish

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 5/9/2019

Our new series, Employment Law Legends, examines pivotal employment law cases—from the history behind them to their lasting impact. In the first episode of the series, Paul Rinnan discusses West Coast Hotel v. Parrish, a case...more