New Mexico’s unemployment-taxable wage base is to be $25,800 in 2020, up from $24,800 in 2019, a spokesman for the state Department of Workforce Solutions said Oct. 18.

Venezuela on Oct. 11 increased its minimum wage and required food bonus for the 10th time in 24 months, retroactively raising the monthly sum of these amounts to 300,000 sovereign bolivars since Oct. 1.

Oct. 23, 25: Semiweekly depositors—Deposit Social Security, Medicare, and withheld federal income taxes.

Waste disposal companies can’t evade joint employer liability through corporate restructuring and multiple name changes, a federal judge in Florida ruled, declining to toss a proposed collective action by workers who say the companies violated federal overtime law.

The total tax rate for funding South Korea’s unemployment benefits program since Oct. 1 is 1.6%, up from the previous total rate of 1.3%, the country’s Ministry of Employment and Labor said in a rate increase summary (Korean).

The California Supreme Court declined to provide the Ninth Circuit with guidance in a proposed class action alleging CRST Van Expedited Inc. failed to give drivers required meal and rest breaks.