Companies with more than 100 employees will soon have to report pay data to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, following a recent court ruling reviving a delayed Obama-era reporting requirement. The pay disclosures were finalized by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in the summer of 2016, but the Trump Administration’s Office of Management ...
As we reported here and here, the National Council of Agricultural Employers (NCAE), which Western Growers serves on their Executive Committee, and Nevada-based grower Peri & Sons sued the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) to stop unsustainable increases in the minimum wage for H-2A visa foreign guestworkers, known at the Adverse Effect Wage Rate (AEWR). On ...
New rules affecting the state minimum wage and the payment of overtime to agricultural workers have one important number in common—26. That is the number by which, for purposes of these laws, you are either a so-called “large” employer and pay a higher minimum wage and overtime after a lower threshold, or you are a ...