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California’s Assembly Bill 5 (AB-5) Threatens to Rain on the Gig Economy Parade

HR Digest

The so-called “ABC test” also applies to a variety of claims including claims for unemployment insurance, paid family leave, paid sick leave, workers’ compensation, payment of wages upon termination of employment, and claims for overtime. AB-5 would become effective as state law on January 2020.

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Regular rate calculation gets a makeover

Business Management Daily

Nonexempt employees who work longer than 40 hours in a week must be paid overtime at 1.5 15, 2020, allow you to offer more perks to nonexempt employees without having to include those perks in their regular rate calculation when you’re figuring their overtime rate. times their regular rates of pay.

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New FAQs from the DOL shed more light on paid leave

Business Management Daily

First order of business: The DOL and the IRS have set the effective date of the Families First Act as April 1, 2020, even though 15 days from the date of enactment is April 2. And, according to the DOL’s FAQs , the circumstances under which employees qualify for emergency paid sick leave or paid FMLA leave are more limited than meets the eye.

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Employment law changes to watch in 2021

Insperity

Due to COVID-19, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) in 2020 waived its requirement that private sector employers submit EEO-1 data. Colorado is extending its 2020 Family First Coronavirus Response Act coverage. Colorado employers with 16 or more workers must offer paid sick leave.

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New employment laws to watch in 2020

Insperity

Every new year brings new employment laws, and 2020 is no different. Updates to the so-called “white-collar exemption” to federal overtime rules have been in the works for a long time. 1, workers must earn at least $684 a week, or $35,568 per year, to be exempt from federal overtime rules. As of Jan. For example, starting Aug.