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Jun
24
2016
Minneapolis Employers Brace for Paid Sick Leave Barnes & Thornburg LLP
May
27
2016
Minneapolis Becomes First City in Minnesota to Require Paid Sick Leave Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jun
1
2016
Minneapolis Approves Paid Sick Leave Law Proskauer Rose LLP
Jan
15
2022
Minneapolis and St. Paul to Require Proof of Vaccination or Negative Test for Certain Businesses Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jan
24
2022
Minneapolis Amends COVID-19 Emergency Regulation Following U.S. Supreme Court Ruling Jackson Lewis P.C.
Aug
15
2013
Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security Seeks Comments on Regulating Labor Dispatch McDermott Will & Emery
May
15
2024
Ministerial Exception in Title VII Cases Is Alive and Well Even After Being Waived Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP
Apr
5
2014
Mining’s Changing Culture — 4 years after UBB (Upper Big Branch) U.S. Department of Labor
Apr
11
2016
Mining Safety Agency Issues Hazard Alert on Pipe Safety Jackson Lewis P.C.
Apr
1
2015
Mining Industry Coalition Opposes Proposed Civil Penalty Rule Changes under Mine Act Jackson Lewis P.C.
May
22
2014
Mining Association Seeks Stay of Coal Dust Rule Jackson Lewis P.C.
Apr
4
2016
Minimum Wages To Rise On Both Coasts Jackson Lewis P.C.
Jan
2
2015
Minimum Wage Surges in 2015 and Beyond Godfrey & Kahn S.C.
May
8
2015
Minimum Wage Returns as a Political Football Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Apr
7
2016
Minimum Wage Rates Increased in New York Epstein Becker & Green, P.C.
Aug
26
2015
Minimum Wage Movement: California Dreamin’ Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jan
26
2017
Minimum Wage Laws Greatly Expanded in 2016 Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jul
7
2014
Minimum Wage Issue Spreading to the Private Sector Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jun
3
2015
Minimum Wage Increases – Another Challenge For National Employers and Unintended Consequences For the Public Jackson Lewis P.C.
Oct
10
2023
Minimum Wage Increases Now Effective in Multiple Canadian Provinces Mintz
Dec
21
2021
Minimum Wage Increases in 2022: A Chart of Upcoming Changes and Interactive Map Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, P.C.
Nov
18
2016
Minimum Wage Increases for Milwaukee and Four States Michael Best & Friedrich LLP
Jul
20
2022
Minimum Wage Increases for Healthcare Workers In the City of Los Angeles Polsinelli PC
Jun
15
2020
Minimum Wage Increases Are Still Coming in July 2020 Jackson Lewis P.C.
Apr
8
2024
Minimum Wage Increases and Ontario Employment Shake-up: What Employers Need to Know Mintz
Sep
22
2022
Minimum Wage Increase for Employees of Florida Medicaid Providers Polsinelli PC
Jun
28
2018
Minimum Wage Inches Closer to Reality for Tipped Workers in the District of Columbia Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
May
28
2014
Minimum Wage in Michigan Set to Rise Beginning in September Varnum LLP
Mar
20
2014
Minimum Wage in Mexico Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP
Jun
3
2014
Minimum Wage Groundswell? Seattle, Others Raise Their Statutory Minimum Wage Rates Mintz
Sep
16
2015
Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors to Increase to $10.15 in 2016 Jackson Lewis P.C.
Feb
10
2015
Minimum Wage Continues to Rise Barnes & Thornburg LLP
Jun
16
2015
Minimum Wage and Paid Sick Leave Update – Oregon State Law May Preempt Current City Patchwork! Squire Patton Boggs (US) LLP
Nov
16
2020
Minimum Wage and Marijuana on the Ballot Foley & Lardner LLP
Dec
4
2014
Minimum Salary Rate Increases for California Computer Software Professional Exemption Announced Jackson Lewis P.C.
 

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