As seen in the February 29, 2016 edition of the Providence Business News. With the close of the first quarter of 2016 on the horizon, employers tend to be in two camps with respect to their employee handbooks – those who have not revised their handbooks for 2016 and those who have. For those in the...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborOutsmart the Pending Changes to the Overtime Law with Advance Planning
November 15, 2015
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli In June we alerted you to the fact that the Department of Labor (“DOL”) was planning to increase the minimum weekly salary an employee must be paid in order to qualify for an exemption from overtime. Since that time, the DOL has published a proposed rule increasing the...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborRI Employers (Large and Small) Required to Accommodate Healthy Pregnant Workers and New Moms. No, FMLA Leave is Not Enough.
August 15, 2015
By Alicia J. Samolis Last month, the Rhode Island Fair Employment Practices Act was amended to require employers with 4 or more employees to provide reasonable accommodations to employees and prospective employees with a “condition”. Such accommodations include, but are not limited to, more frequent or longer breaks, time off to recover from childbirth, acquisition or...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborNewsU.S. Supreme Court Takes Up Major Challenge to Federal Health Reform
November 10, 2014
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli Are Employers in the 34 States Without Exchanges Subject to Penalties? Despite the fact that there is no longer any disagreement in the lower courts, the Supreme Court on Friday, November 7, 2014, made the unusual and highly unexpected move of agreeing to rule on a key challenge...
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli In a surprising reversal, the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia yesterday granted request by the federal government to have its full 11-judge bench re-hear the case on whether the government, by regulation, can provide tax credits to exchanges run by individual states. ...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborNewsDueling Districts on Major Challenge to Federal Health Reform
July 23, 2014
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli Are Employers in States Without Exchanges Subject to Penalties? In two highly technical and comprehensive rulings out July 22, 2014, two federal districts came to opposite conclusions on a key remaining challenge to federal health reform. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals limited the reach of Affordable...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborNewsWhen it Comes to Volunteers and Unpaid Interns There is No Such Thing As a Free Lunch
June 18, 2014
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli t is summertime and the schools are out. You get a call from an eager college student offering to intern at your company for free. It seems like a win-win situation, right? Your company wins by having someone finally get to those little details and back burner...
Client AlertsEmployment & LaborNewsRI Increased Employee Absences (and Headaches) due to the 2014 Temporary Caregiver Leave Law
January 8, 2014
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli Effective January 1, 2014, all Rhode Island employers must allow their employees four (4) weeks of time off per year under the Temporary Caregiver Insurance (“TCI”) Law. Like Temporary Disability Insurance (“TDI”), the program will be financed through employee payroll deductions and administered by the Department of Labor...
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli We alerted you a few weeks ago that while we were all excited about the prospect of bi-weekly pay, we were still waiting for the required application to appear on the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training (“DLT”) website. It has!! The application must be filed with...
By Alicia J. Samolis and Michael A. Gamboli A few weeks ago we alerted you to the fact that although the somewhat infamous bi-weekly pay law was set to go into effect on January 1, 2014, neither the required application nor the governing regulations had been finalized by the Rhode Island Department of Labor and Training...
