Minimum Wage, New Regulations, Employee Rights

NYC Council Passes Bills Expanding Minimum Pay Protections to App-Based Grocery Delivery Workers

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 7/25/2025

The New York City Council has passed a several bills that would extend pay and other protections to many more app-based delivery workers and entitle them to a minimum pay-rate of $21.44 per hour. In December 2023, New York...more

Chicago labor ordinances/upgrades take effect

Eversheds Sutherland (US) LLP on 7/9/2025

Notices Chicago businesses are required to post public notices related to minimum wage, paid leave and paid sick and safe leave, and the Fair Workweek ordinance, in a conspicuous place at the place of employment. Chicago...more

Chicago’s Annual Employment Law Changes Are Coming July 1 — Are You Ready?

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 6/25/2025

Effective July 1, 2025, updates to several key Chicago employment laws go into effect, including (1) updates to the Chicago Fair Workweek employee coverage thresholds; (2) updates to the City’s minimum wage; and (3) new...more

Change Is Coming to Spain’s Minimum Wage, Visa Process, and LGBTQ Protections

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 2/5/2025

In recent months, Spain has approved measures to streamline the visa process and better protect LBGTQ employees. It also has proposed raising the minimum wage and shortening the workweek....more

Provisional Measure #905 – A New Mini Labor Reform in Brazil

Littler on 1/7/2020

Provisional Measure # 905 (“PM”), published on November 12, 2019, establishes a new type of labor relationship in Brazil. The PM aims to reduce the alarmingly high unemployment rate affecting younger workers in the country,...more

Supreme Court Denies Stay of DOL’s Home Care Rule

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 10/8/2015

On December 22, 2014, in Home Care Association of America v. Weil, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated a key portion of a U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) regulation amending the minimum wage and...more

Finally, a Minimum Wage Comes to Germany. Are Employers Ready?

Latham & Watkins LLP on 11/20/2014

Employers should act now to ensure all employees — including contractors’ employees — receive adequate pay to avoid risk of significant fines. 21 of the 28 member states of the European Union have minimum wage laws....more

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