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Start date of the NLRB’s joint-employer rule is delayed again

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A Texas federal judge delayed the start date after holding a hearing for a lawsuit challenging the rule, which was filed by business groups including the US Chamber of Commerce. Quick-to-read HR news & insights. The rule, which had been set to take effect Feb. 26, was pushed back two weeks, to March 11. The US District Judge, J.

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FEDERAL INDUSTRY NEWS

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FLRA Issues Guidance on Information Requests The Federal Labor Relations Authority’s General Counsel recently issued a guidance document stating that Federal agencies must provide their specific rationale for denying requests for information from Federal employees’ unions when that rationale is employee privacy-related.

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US government changes race categories on EEOC forms

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The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission collects racial data on EEO-1 self-identification forms, which companies with more than 100 employees (or federal contractors with 50 or more workers) use to track and submit race and gender data to the government. Quick-to-read HR news & insights. What’s this mean for employers?

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Summer, a workplace student loan solution, closes a $9 million funding round

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The fundraising round comes on the heels of news that Summer will partner with ADP to offer student loan retirement matching to the human capital management firm’s 401(k) clients. Quick-to-read HR news & insights. Summer, he said, was founded with the goal of tackling the “excruciatingly high cost of college.”

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The Messenger was sued for alleged WARN Act violations

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Just one day after The Messenger shut down, the digital news site was sued by a former employee who alleged the company didn’t comply with laws that grant protections to workers affected by layoffs. 1 in a US District Court in New York. 1 in a US District Court in New York. There are some exceptions to the federal WARN Act.

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Legislative lowdown: Department of Labor will extend overtime pay to 4 million salaried workers

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The degree to which your organization will be affected by these new salary thresholds may depend in part on where your employees are based, HR Brew reported last September. In certain states, like New York and California, the salary threshold for overtime is already higher than the one proposed by the federal government.

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Kevin Hart’s restaurant chain becomes the latest employer to offer a student loan benefit

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The decision to offer the benefit was made in anticipation of federal student loan relief ending in October, Hooper told HR Brew via email. trillion as of Q4 2023, according to the Federal Reserve , a far cry from the $480 billion owed in 2006 when the Fed first started calculating the figure. Quick-to-read HR news & insights.