Now that Republicans control the Executive Branch as well as both Houses of the Kentucky General Assembly, Kentucky will soon join 26 other states that have enacted right-to-work laws. In states with right-to-work laws, no employee can be required as a condition of employment, to join a union or to pay dues to a labor union.
According to a new study and report from PayScale.com, working women in Kentucky earn 22.2% less than men, with the median pay for a male worker being $48,900, compared with $38,100 for a female worker. This “gender pay gap” -- as it is often termed -- is slightly smaller than the pay gap nationwide.
The report states that ...
Yesterday, in a unanimous opinion, the United States Supreme Court broadened what can be considered an “article of manufacture” for design patent infringement. See Samsung Electronics Co. v. Apple Inc., No. 15-777, --- S. Ct. ---, 2016 WL 7078449 (Dec. 7, 2016). “Patent protection is available for a ‘new, original ...
By: Sharon Gold
In September, 21 states and numerous business groups sued the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in a Texas Federal Court attacking the DOL’s Final Rule that raised the salary minimum for workers to be exempt from overtime requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The states filed a motion for preliminary injunction ...
Stop the presses? Maybe! A federal judge in Texas issued an injunction which temporarily halted the enforcement of the new FLSA overtime regulations. That means that employees properly classified as exempt under the current regulations (i.e., who satisfy BOTH the salary and duties tests) but whose salary did not reach the $47,476 threshold ...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has published a revised version of Form I-9, which employers can start using now. The last day employers may use the old Form I-9 (with a revision date of 03/08/13 N) is January 21, 2017. The new Form I-9 is meant to be more user friendly, with an emphasis on decreasing technical errors. The new form may also ...
On July 12th I posted a report on this blog about the U.S. Department of Labor’s “persuader rule” that was set to go into effect on July 1st. This rule would have required employers and their labor consultants—including employers’ attorneys—to file reports with the DOL disclosing in a public record the work the ...
Max Bridges, Associate in the Firm's Natural Resources & Environmental Service Team, wrote an article that was published in the fall edition of the Kentucky Rural Water Association's Waterproof Magazine. The article, "EPA's Muddy 'Waters of the U.S.' Rule," describes the history of the Clean Water Act with regard to the "waters of the United ...
The City of Florence (“Florence” or “the City”) recently entered into a proposed consent decree, pending court approval, to resolve a discrimination lawsuit the Justice Department filed regarding two City female police officers. The lawsuit, filed last month, alleges both officers were discriminated ...
Today the Kentucky Supreme Court issued a much awaited opinion in the minimum wage battle between Louisville and business groups, siding with the business groups and invalidating the ordinance. In Kentucky Restaurant Association et. al v. Louisville/Jefferson County Metro Gov’t, 2015 –SC-000371-TG (October 20 ...