August 24, 2016

The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously upheld a law boosting the minimum wage for some hotel workers in the City of Los Angeles. A three-judge panel on the circuit said on Monday that a District Court had been correct last year, when dismissing the challenge to the initiative. The suit was brought by two industry groups: the American Hotel and Lodging Association, and the Asian American Hotel Owners Association. Passed in October 2014, the measure raised the minimum wage in L.A. this year to…

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Companies seeking to do business with the federal government will now have to verify their workplace safety track record, according to new regulations finalized on Wednesday. The rule could block firms that flout labor regulations from securing lucrative government contracts in the future. Under the new regulations, businesses working to procure contracts over $500,000 will have to inform the government of any labor violations they have incurred over the previous three years. Those include any non-compliance of the department’s 14 basic workplace protections, such as…

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