Insight and Commentary on Wage and Hour Law Developments Affecting Employers
By David Jacobs and Amy B. Messigian
We would like to call your attention to a significant change to the whistleblower statute in California that went into effect on January 1. The statute, Cal. Lab. Code section 1102.5, has been substantially expanded beyond its prior form to now protect employees from retaliation for making…
The Pension Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended by the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (the “Act”), significantly impacting the delivery of health care, also amends the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The FLSA amendments impose certain employer responsibilities in providing health care benefits, confer whistleblower protections and authorize the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) to undertake increased enforcement related to health care. Employers have new requirements to learn, and to implement, under the FLSA, irrespective of their size or the number of employees in their workforce…
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