Last Thursday, San Antonio City Council members voted to revise the city’s paid sick leave ordinance—a law many believe to be quite controversial. The ordinance requires all San Antonio employers, regardless of size, to grant their employees one hour of earned sick time for every 30 hours worked, with a yearly cap of 56 hours of earned paid sick time.…
On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a rule that extends mandatory overtime pay for 1.3 million workers in the U.S. Currently, workers who earn a salary (not hourly wages) of $23,660 per year or less are entitled to overtime pay for hours worked in excess of 40 a workweek. This number was set back in 2004. The new…
