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For those of you who have been following the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) efforts to change (at least) the salary threshold for white collar employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the day of reckoning is likely upon us. On March 14, the DOL submitted its final version of the regulations to the Office of Management and Budget ...
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After a brief (but mandatory) operational pause, the blog is back! I can’t promise daily posts going forward, but I will be active from here on out. Back to our regular programming… Have you ever dreamed of being in “waste management” or having your very own construction business. No? Does your business have janitors? Maintenance workers? Tower climbers? Installers? Service ...
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Over the holidays, I read about a lawsuit against a now-shuttered Dallas hospital filed by a nurse who was among 150 or so employees who were told the morning that the hospital suddenly closed for good that they would not be paid because of an “unexpected funding issue.” The former head of the hospital’s management company commented in the news story ...
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Over the holidays, a number of areas of the country experienced severe weather, from blizzard conditions to thunderstorms and tornadoes. Blog readers and HR contacts in the industry have been sending questions, posting on social media, and calling with questions that go something like this: Q. We had some severe winter weather here that was so bad that the General ...
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Welcome back! If you missed them over the holiday week, you will want to check out our series on 2016’s Pay Period Leap Year from last week. You might need to take some immediate action to get payroll ready for this year. Now that 2016 has arrived, it is time to look back at the number of cases filed in federal ...
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After years of speculation, the day is finally here: the Department of Labor will finally publish its revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) white collar exemptions tomorrow in the Federal Register (or at least announce then, with publication to follow shortly thereafter). The final regulations have four pleasant surprises for employers, though. That’s not to say that the ...
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For those of you who have been following the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) efforts to change (at least) the salary threshold for white collar employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the day of reckoning is likely upon us. On March 14, the DOL submitted its final version of the regulations to the Office of Management and Budget ...
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We talk regularly about the DOL’s focus on misclassifications or the potential liability for unpaid overtime, but these are all civil penalties. Although they are somewhat rare, the FLSA and other wage and hour statutes provide opportunities for criminal charges against employers. In recent years, the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division has issued press releases trumpeting criminal charges brought against employers. For instance, ...
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Yesterday, we looked at statistics for FLSA lawsuits in federal courts during calendar year 2015. The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently released its enforcement statistics for FY2015, which ended on September 30. The data shows a few trends: The WHD collected $247 million in back wages in total, up by $6 million from FY2014. The WHD collected ...
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