Workers in half of the United States are seeing minimum wage increases in 2021, meaning employers and employees alike will need to stay abreast of changes that can affect various types of compensation beyond workers’ regular pay, experts told Law360…

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 Employers are bracing themselves for a wave of policy actions on the wage and hour front after Joe Biden takes office, with the president-elect widely expected to set about dismantling much of President Donald Trump’s employer-friendly legacy around worker pay issues…

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 With Joe Biden days away from the Oval Office, worker advocates are hoping the president-elect and his team will act swiftly to nix many of President Donald Trump’s wage and hour regulations in favor of new rules that are more favorable to workers…

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 There’s “no checklist” for applying a legal exception that lets religious institutions pay ministers in ways that otherwise wouldn’t be allowed under federal wage law, the U.S. Department of Labor said in one of two opinion letters released Friday…

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 The U.S. Department of Labor has finalized a long-awaited rule that aims to clarify the criteria for classifying workers as either employees or independent contractors, but developments in the political arena cast a shadow of uncertainty over the rule’s future, experts said…

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