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Taylor also reported that w hile there are rules regarding minimum temperature levels in UK workplaces, there are no laws that set a maximum leve l.

Nathan O’Connor, managing director of Scottsdale, Arizona-based Equity Methods, an HR advisory and financial reporting company, noted that the main appeal for employers paying their Ukraine-based employees in bitcoin or ethereum — the two most prominent cryptocurrencies — is they could likely prove to be a far more reliable store of value during the war than the Ukrainian hryvnia or Russian ruble, which could or have collapsed in value.

While the context of the USWNT’s pay equity settlement is hyper-focused to the sports world and U.S. soccer in particular, the nature of the case does put the spotlight on the issue of pay equity, said Janilyn Daub, partner at employment law firm Barnes and Thornburg.

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However, these workers presently do not have the same access to protection, employment rights and social welfare provisions and do not enjoy the same employment status rights as workers classified as employees (Dobbins 2009).

Frost said that proposed laws such as those in BC offer insights into how employers can adjust their compensation models to align with laws while ensuring fairness and compliance.

This greater scrutiny comes as employers face above-average increases in healthcare costs this year, according to the Business Group on Health’s 2023 Large Employers’ Health Care Strategy and Plan Design Survey .

Employees who require state-granted licenses to do their jobs may also need to ensure they are properly licensed in the state(s) in which they work remotely, and employers may also need to note state-specific laws around data privacy.

A host of states (see table below) have laws (active or upcoming) that require employers to disclose salary ranges, either in job postings or upon request.

The law prohibits employers from making hiring, firing or other employment decisions based on a drug test that finds “ nonpsychoactive cannabis metabolites” in someone’s hair or urine, which do not indicate current impairment, but that someone consumed cannabis recently, up to weeks prior, according to Assembly Bill 2188 that Assemblymember Bill Quirk (D-Hayward) sponsored.