The tight labor market continues to positively impact wage growth, according to the latest Paychex | IHS Markit Small Business Employment Watch.

Minimum wage increases will affect numerous states across the country in January 2020.

By Andrea Averill, Senior Consultant, Sibson Consulting, Carolyn Cowper, VP, Sibson Consulting, Katie Manning, Senior Consultant, Sibson Consulting
It’s HR’s favorite time of the compensation cycle when organizations begin thinking about their salary budgets for the coming year.

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires certain employers to provide basic accommodations—including break time and a designated space other than a bathroom—for breastfeeding employees to pump (or express) breast milk at work.

By Anjuli M. Cargain, Duane Morris LLP
A wage and hour exclusion in an employment practices liability insurance (EPLI) policy barring coverage for claims based on "wage and hour or overtime laws," but providing coverage for the cost of defending excluded claims, did not bar coverage for a restaurant's defense of Labor Code 2802 claims by delivery drivers for business-related expenses, including travel for required training, mileage driven for deliveries, and cell phone usage, or for purely derivative claims.

According to Payscale’s Q3 2019 PayScale Index, nominal wages increased by 0.5% quarter over quarter or 2.6% year over year and cities with a concentration of technology jobs showed the strongest wage growth for the third quarter of 2019.

By Mathew A. Goodin, Seyfarth Shaw
California employers have come to expect that with every meal or rest break claim comes a derivative claim for failure to pay wages owed upon termination and for failure to provide accurate itemized wage statements. The following case is a significant boon for employers facing such derivative claims, although the court made clear that its holding generally will be limited to situations involving on-duty meal periods.