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Michigan minimum wage increase alert

by Cameron D. Ritsema, Bodman PLC

Under Michigan’s Improved Workforce Opportunity Wage Act (IWOWA), minimum wage increases in the state took effect on January 1, 2026.

Jan 05, 2026 · HR Alerts · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin

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Postmortem: AB 650 was hazardous to public health

In early June, to the great relief of public and private healthcare organizations throughout California, the legislature put Assembly Bill (AB) 650 to rest. It would have required healthcare providers to pay $10,000 in...

Jun 13, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · California

Fraud asserted against model employee

Often, the penalties and attorneys' fees associated with a Labor Code suit far exceed the wages at issue. In the following case, a fashion model sought a waiting-time penalty 3,000% of the one-day's wages claimed to be...

Jun 13, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · California

Employee unwellness and the rise of workplace shootings

Workplace violence has been a problem in California and across the nation for decades, and it appears to be getting worse. Some governmental estimates have identified up to 36 mass killings in California workplaces in...

Jun 13, 2021 · Employment Law Letter · California

What Kansas employers should know about rising fraudulent unemployment claims

Fraudulent unemployment claims have risen across the country over the last year. Kansas has been hit particularly hard. In some of the opening weeks of 2021, the state received the third-highest number of initial claims...

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NLRA doesn't preempt defamation claim against union, MN court rules

A defamation lawsuit filed by a real estate management company against a union and a security guard isn't preempted by the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA), the Minnesota Court of Appeals ruled in a recent unpublished...

'Patient safety near miss' justifies termination without ADEA or ADA liability

After Creighton University dismissed a member of its medical residency program, she sued for wrongful termination and alleged she had been a victim of age discrimination under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act...

Important reminders for hiring youth workers in Iowa

Summer is just around the corner, and with it comes a wave of hiring teenagers. Even though as of this writing we haven’t finished the Drake Relays in Des Moines and most likely have at least one more chance of snow in...

3 key employee benefits affected by the ARPA

The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (ARPA), recently signed by President Joe Biden, creates a number of changes and/or continuations of COVID-19 relief programs available to businesses and employees. Here are three main...

How to address ongoing COVID-19 issues when employees declare, ‘But, Facebook said . . .’

We all know neither Google nor Facebook has a legal degree, but that doesn’t stop your employees from acting as if the social media platforms do. More than one employee has probably pushed back on a policy by saying, “I...

Q - A: Using PTO to offset sick leave during pandemic

Q We have an exempt employee who was out for a month due to covid-19. She was paid her salary, and her sick time was deducted. Even with her already-accrued sick time plus the 80 additional hours, she now has negative...

Illinois bias law now covers criminal convictions

Illinois employers now have yet another law to navigate. The state human rights statute now bans discrimination based on a candidate’s or employee’s criminal conviction unless the employer can show a “substantial...

7th Circuit sends sex-based salary comments back to the 1950s

As any high schooler with a smartphone will tell you, your words can haunt you long after you utter them. One high school recently learned the same is true for its employees, thanks to the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act...

7th Circuit holds winery violated NLRA over 'Cellar Lives Matter' slogan

The 7th Circuit recently upheld a decision from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in a case involving Woodbridge Winery. The ruling cemented employees' right to display a prounion message on their clothing...

Idaho at-will employees have standing to sue employer for fraudulent hiring

The Idaho Supreme Court recently rendered a decision highlighting an important distinction between wrongful discharge and “fraudulent hiring,” the latter of which allows at-will employees to sue their former employer...

Determining whether elective surgeries are covered under FMLA

Q An employee is having an elective surgery that won’t require an overnight hospital stay, but she will be off work for two weeks to recover and will possibly have some restrictions afterward. Will her surgery and time...