Roundup: Chicago paid leave; Travel time; Vaccine mandates; Opiates; AI and wage hour issues

NEWSLETTER VOLUME 2.1

January 08, 2024

Salary.com Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review

 

Welcome to Salary.com's Compensation and Pay Equity Law Review.   

  

Our editor, employment lawyer Heather Bussing, is tracking legislation, cases, and analysis to give you the latest critical HR topics.

 

This week we're answering the questions:

  • Will Chicago's latest changes to its paid leave law actually work?
  • When do employers have to pay for work travel time?
  • Why is it so hard for employers and legislatures to make rules about vaccines?
  • What is important to understand about addiction and recovery from opiates?
  • What will the humans do when AI takes over everything?
  • How could AI taking over work affect wage hour issues?
January 2nd, 2024
Hooray for do-overs! Chicago passed an ambitious paid leave law that was going into effect January 1, 2024.
They've backed up, made some changes, and extended the effective date until July 1, 2024. The biggest changes are clarifying who it applies to—both employer size and how many employees—and how to count.
January 3rd, 2024
Is travel time paid work time? You already know the answer because this is wage hour law and the answer is always the same. It depends.
January 4th, 2024
The Texas legislature recently fired shots by prohibiting employers from requiring employees to be vaccinated.
No? Fine.
January 5th, 2024
Human brains are amazing and magical things that rewire, respond, and shift in response to how they are treated and cared for. But recovery from addiction takes some time, healing, and a lot of change.
January 8th, 2024
After the machines completely take over and humans just have meetings and do emails all day . . . wait—a bunch of us are there already. Sigh. But hey, the engagement scores are holding steady, so all must be well.

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