2012 Rhode Island State and Federal Labor Law Poster Includes:
-No Smoking Notice
-Family Medical Leave Act
-Rhode Island Minimum Wage (Updated)
-Right-to-Know
-Discrimination Notice
-Unemployment Insurance and Disability
-Sexual Harassment
-Workers' Compensation Act
-Prevailing Wage Rate
-Whistle blowers' Protection Act
-Payday Notice
-Emergency Notice
-Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA) (Updated)
-Federal Minimum Wage (Updated)-Military Leave Act (Updated)
-E Verify (Updated)-Right To Work (Updated)
-Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA)
-Equal Employment Opportunity is the Law
-Employee Polygraph Protection Act
-Family and Medical Leave Act (Updated)
-OSHA - Job Safety & Health Protection The new NLRA notice comes with a mandatory size
requirement of 11” x 17”. Who is exempt from the NLRA Notice?Most
private employers are required to post the NLRA Poster. The law
specifically excludes public sector employees, agricultural and
domestic workers, independent contractors, workers employed by a parent
or spouse, and employees of air and rail carriers covered by the
Railway Labor Act.
For Rhode Island Labor Law Poster Facts please click on Labor Law Quick Facts.
The Rhode Island minimum wage is $7.40 per hour or $2.89 for tipped employees. Time and one-half premium pay for work on Sundays and holidays in retail and certain other businesses is required under two laws that are separate from the minimum wage law.*
Exceptions: 1.) Full-time students under 19 years of age working in nonprofit religious, educational, librarial, or community service organizations: $6.66 per hour (90% of applicable minimum) 2.) 14 and 15 year olds who do not work more than 24 hours in a week. (For any week in which a 14 or 15 year old works more than 24 hours the higher applicable minimum rate must be paid for all hours worked in that week.) $5.55 per hour (75% of applicable minimum) 3.) Workers employed in: domestic service in or about a private home, Federal service, voluntary service in educational, charitable, religious or nonprofit organizations where employer/employee relationships do not exist, newspaper carriers on home delivery, shoe shine persons, caddies on golf courses, ushers in theaters, traveling or outside sales occupations.*
The Rhode Island Parental and Family Medical Leave Act requires that employers of 50 or more employees grant an unpaid leave of absence, upon the request of an eligible employee, for 13 consecutive weeks in any two calendar years, under certain conditions. Under the Rhode Island Right-To-Know Law, your employer must tell you about the dangers of any hazardous substances in your workplace.*
*NOT LEGAL ADVICE OR OPINION. PLEASE CONSULT LEGAL EXPERT IN YOUR LOCAL AREA.
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