Labor & Employment Law Update

Despite administrative conflicts surrounding the newly revived EEO-1 Component 2 pay data requirements, employers should now begin preparing their compensation data for submission to the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”). As previously reported here, in April of this year, a federal judge set September 30, 2019 as the deadline for […]

In a May 1, 2019, Revenue Procedure, the IRS expanded the determination letter program to reach statutory hybrid plans and plan mergers. As background, in 2017, the IRS significantly narrowed the application of its determination letter program for individually designed qualified plans. Prior to 2017, individually designed retirement plans were […]

In a whirlwind few weeks, the fate of the EEO-1 Pay Data requirement (referred to as “Component 2”) was finally decided…or was it? As a quick refresher, the EEO-1 survey must be filed annually by private employers with 100 or more employees, and by federal contractors with 50 or more […]

Remember what you were doing in late November 2016? Me neither. But you may remember around that time analyzing the salary levels for your employees who are classified as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime requirements under one of the “white collar” exemptions (i.e. the executive, administrative, professional, […]

As a result of the major flooding across the Midwest, President Trump declared a state of “major disaster” in Nebraska on Friday, March 22, and in Iowa on Monday, March 25. This designation brings several special tools for employers to assist their employees who have been impacted. PTO Donation Policy […]