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Various jurisdictions have increased their minimum wage rates. If applicable, you must increase the pay rate for non-exempt employees to meet the new minimum wage.

Please note this is not a complete list of all current minimum wages in effect at this time.

Last month, a federal judge ordered the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) to take all necessary steps to comply with changes to EEO-1 data collection obligations first announced in 2016 and stayed in 2017. These reinstated obligations increase the amount of information employers are required to collect and report to the EEOC, including pay data called Component 2 data. Component 2 data includes wage and hour data for employees broken down by race/ethnicity and gender. On May 3, 2019, the EEOC announced that it will collect both 2017 and 2018 Component 2 data from covered EEO-1 filers by
September 30, 2019.

Starting June 30, CDK Global will no longer accept generic General Ledger Import files from their vendors.

Virginia has enacted a law that amends the information that must be provided by employers to employees on their wage statements provided at the time of pay. 

The Oklahoma Medical Marijuana and Patient Protection Act was signed into law by Oklahoma Governor Stitt on March 14, 2019.  The law clarifies certain regulatory aspects of the state’s existing medical marijuana law, and includes certain provisions that will be helpful to Oklahoma employers.