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-based employers are budgeting 3.5% average pay raises for their employees for 2025, slightly less than the 3.6% actual increases doled out in 2024, according to the results of Payscale’s ninth annual Salary Budget Survey , which was released July 31.

The current federal law allows the agency to issue certificates under Section 14(c) of Fair Labor Standards Act , which lets employers pay certain workers less than the federal minimum wage based on the notion that their disabilities hinder productivity.

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After all, the First and Fifth Amendment analyses in this case merge in several ways, because laws that ‘interfere with the right of free speech or of association’ must pass a ‘stringent vagueness test’ for such a law to give citizens sufficient notice of ‘what is prohibited, so that [they] may act accordingly’ and for such a law to provide sufficiently ‘explicit standards’ to avoid “arbitrary and discriminatory enforcement.”

Recent data finds more than two-thirds of employers viewing their organizations as being “age-friendly,” with fewer employees feeling the same way about the companies that employ them.

;Allows working women to take legal action and seek monetary remedies if their employer fails to comply with federal law.

“As an employer, emphasizing the kinds of services that are helpful to an individual or family in terms of their health status, showing people that they have good support from their employer, that’s a great aspect of loyalty and the relationship a person has with their employer,” O’Neill said.

; ; While the DOL’s latest guidance re-emphasizes that the eight principles are not binding on employers, employers should already be cognizant of the practices suggested in the document, according to labor and employment law firm Littler Mendelson P.C .

Berger is keenly tuned into this area of employment law, as he formerly served as the Chief of the Civil Conduct Task Force, Antitrust Division of the U.S.

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