Easy Business Posters Blog | Compliance Posters Updates

The US government protects work force with policies and regulations on how workers should be treated. It would be hard for any individual worker or employee to be familiar with all of these policies, and it is for this reason that fair employment laws are required to be posted in certain places within a company [...]

A new law (Senate Bill 187) recently enacted in Kansas will require workers in that state to give their employers faster notice of accidents and injuries in order to be eligible for workers' compensation. The change took effect on April 25, and the state noted the new faster reporting deadlines in a recent revision of [...]

Employers in Georgia who participate in the state’s unemployment insurance program will need to update their workplace posters, following the state Department of Labor’s recent changes to the text of the UI poster. The new Georgia labor law posters are available in English and Spanish from the Georgia Department of Labor’s website or you can [...]

Under a new California law that took effect on April 1, some workplaces in the Golden State must display a new California Human Trafficking poster notifying victims of human trafficking and the general public about anti-trafficking phone hotlines and other services.
The new California labor law poster 2013 is required by a law (SB 1193) which [...]

Though employers will not need to update the minimum wage provisions in required federal labor law posters unless Congress heeds President Obama's call for a hike in the current $7.25 hourly federal minimum wage rate, the issue is beginning to show signs of life in several states. More than a dozen states and some localities [...]

They won't yet be found on federal labor law posters, but new state and local laws in New York have begun to bar employers from discriminating against job applications from the unemployed, and the issue could attract new attention from Congress or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).
Over the objections of Mayor Michael Bloomberg, New [...]

It's not yet required on labor law posters, but there is a growing drive in the states to restrict or eliminate employers' ability to require workers and job applicants to divulge passwords to their social media accounts. The push comes in response to some employers demanding applicants to furnish account names and passwords for their [...]

As employers familiar with the mandates highlighted in labor law compliance posters probably know, the Family and Medical Leave Act requires most employers to provide workers with, among other things, up to 12 weeks of unpaid annual sick leave for medical conditions affecting the worker or the worker's immediate family. No federal law requires employers [...]

Employers who have taken a careful look at the Federal labor law posters probably already know about the Pregnancy Discrimination Act. As the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's poster on workplace non-discrimination reflects, the Pregnancy Discrimination Act was added in 1978 to the anti-sex discrimination provisions of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. In essence, it [...]

Employers have a number of obligations under DOL regulations, including complying with labor and benefit laws and displaying labor law posters. Employers will now want to keep an eye on how multi-employer health and benefit plans comply with new DOL rules under the new healthcare law. New civil and criminal penalties apply for plans that [...]