If you haven’t already filed your EEO-1 Component 2 report, it’s time to check that off your to-do list.  The deadline is fast approaching.  Employers are required to turn over this worker pay and hours data to the EEOC by September 30, 2019. How did we get here? This past Spring, a federal district court […]

On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor released a new rule increasing the salary threshold for employees to qualify for the “white-collar” exemptions from overtime pay.  The DOL set the new salary minimum at $684 per week, or $35,568 per year.  The annual salary threshold for “highly compensated employees” was raised from $100,000 […]

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced a new Notice of Information Collection regarding the EEO-1 Report.  This new Notice includes an updated burden analysis from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) related to compilation and production of requested EEO-1 data. EEOC states that the decades-old Component 1 race and sex data serves […]

In MV Transportation, Inc., 368 NLRB No. 66 (Sept. 10, 2019), unionized employers won a tremendous victory before the NLRB, giving unionized employers with collective bargaining agreements significantly more flexibility to exercise their contractual rights and to make operational changes impacting unionized employees during a labor contract without bargaining.  In short, contractual rights that employers […]

You observe an employee acting oddly at work. But, the employee’s work has not suffered. You don’t think the employee is truly a harm to himself, but they’re just…a bit off. What can you do without violating the law? Specifically, how can an employer inform themselves on whether an employee’s odd behavior is actually a […]

Welcome to The Personnel Files, a Miller Johnson blog concerning all things Employment Law.  The days of the hard copy newspaper, newsletter and other periodicals are mostly gone.  Today’s HR professionals and leaders are interested in having real time updates and notices on important, new, or interesting developments that may impact their organizations and employees. […]