Dive Brief:
- Employers who run afoul of EEOC and/or Department of Labor regulations will be paying stiffer penalties beginning later this year, according to HR Morning.
- The EEOC, for example, raised its max penalty from $210 to $525 for any notice-posting violations related to the ADA, GINA and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, HR Morning reports.
- As for the Labor Dept., it raised the non-compliance stakes in several areas. HR Morning points to passage of the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act Improvements Act of 2015, which mandates that federal agencies update their civil monetary penalties for annual inflation. In other words, those penalties are going to keep getting more expensive.
Insight
HR Morning cited several ways the Labor Dept. is raising penalties, including its penalty for willful violations of FLSA minimum wage and overtime rules, which will rise from $1,100 to $1,894 (a related price increase is the FMLA penalty for violating the law’s posting requirements, from $110 to $163 for each offense).
OSHA's fines are skyrocketing too. Its max penalty for serious violations shoots from $7,000 to $12,471. And if those violations are "willful or repeated," employers are staring at a $54,709 increase in penalties, from $70,000 to $124,709. HR Morning mentions several other Labor Dept. fines on the rise. These new penalties mostly kick in after Nov. 2.