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On Tuesday, Floridians voted to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 per hour by September 30, 2026. The increases will be made incrementally until that date, first to $10 per hour in September 2021, and then increasing by $1 each subsequent year.

On October 22, 2020, Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed into law Public Act 238, which establishes important new protections for workers coping with COVID-19. The law applies to employees in both the private and public sectors, but does not apply to first responders, health care workers, and certain other specified employees.

The District of Columbia requires private employers to provide tipped workers with clear and extensive notice of their rights under the District’s labor and anti-discrimination laws, as well as information on how to report violations of the law.

Four years before he was elected President, Abraham Lincoln reminded the Illinois Republican State Convention that “The ballot is stronger than the bullet.” Voting is central to the democratic process, and MSE attorneys are working hard to ensure that all voters are heard.

Ensuring that everyone has legal assistance – even those who cannot afford a lawyer – is a highly encouraged practice. The American Bar Association reminds lawyers that “Every lawyer has a professional responsibility to provide legal services to those unable to pay.

Watch out federal employees. President Trump seeks to remove hundreds of thousands of federal employees from civil service protections to create a class of employees beholden solely to him and his political whims.

The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) issued new regulations last week that will make it easier for federal agencies to discipline and fire “underperforming” employees.

The AFL-CIO Lawyers Coordinating Committee (LCC) recently convened to form a Diversity and Racial Justice Committee.

On October 5, 2020, McGillivary Steele Elkin LLP filed a Complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of over one thousand members of the D.C. Police Union who are employed as police officers, detectives and sergeants by the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department and who have not been paid the overtime compensation due under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) during the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency.

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the important role of labor unions in the American workplace, which give workers a collective voice. During this crisis, unions have continued to fight on behalf of their members, including for safer working conditions, paid sick leave, and higher premium and hazard pays.