Last week, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it had secured over $12,000 in back wages for 184 employees of a Chick-Fil-A franchisee. The settlement secured by the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division is a good reminder that DOL ...
Read More »State and Local Minimum Wages Set to Rise in 2016
Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that one of my main focuses from day to day is updating you on ordinances, ballot initiatives, and other local and state actions on minimum wages, paid family or sick leave, and ...
Read More »Amended New York Law Gives Wage and Hour Plaintiffs Direct Access to Shareholders’ Pockets
New York employers and their shareholders will start facing substantially increased liability for wage and hour violations in January now that the state has again amended its Business Corporation Law. The latest change allows plaintiffs in wage and hour cases ...
Read More »FLSA FAQ: Paying Non-Exempt Employees for Attending Lectures, Training, and Meetings
Before Thanksgiving, we discussed when for profit, non-profit, and public sector employers may accept volunteer service from employees. One of our readers, an HR director at a telecom company, pointed out that there is one other kind of “volunteer” service ...
Read More »FLSA FAQ: Giving FLSA-Guilt-Free Thanksgiving Turkeys and Other Holiday Gifts to Employees
For readers in the U.S., tomorrow is Thanksgiving and the start of a long holiday weekend for many of us. As we head into the holiday break, it is a good time to address how employers should handle holiday gifts ...
Read More »FLSA FAQ: The “Starter” Minimum Wage Already Exists, But Isn’t Very Useful
Two topics that we have heard quite a bit about during all of the GOP debates so far are immigration and the minimum wage–two of my favorites. We’ll leave the immigration debate aside for now, but I want to highlight ...
Read More »DOL Starts Enforcing New Home Health Care Provider Rule Today
As we discussed in October, the Supreme Court denied a request to stay the Department of Labor’s new “Home Care” Final Rule, which prohibits third-party employers from using the overtime exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for certain domestic ...
Read More »Local Minimum Wage Measures Produce Mixed Bag in 2015 Elections
Those of you who follow me on Twitter know that one of my main focuses from day to day is updating you on ordinances, ballot initiatives, and other local and state actions on minimum wages, paid family or sick leave, and ...
Read More »Supreme Court Denies Request to Delay DOL Home Care Wage Rule
In a form order without explanation, Chief Justice John Roberts yesterday declined home health care industry groups’ request to delay a lower court’s ruling upholding the Department of Labor’s new regulations governing home health care workers aimed at boosting wages. He did not ...
Read More »Tip Credits, Tip Pooling Continue to be Hot Issues in FLSA Litigation
The hospitality industry is ground zero for many of the hottest wage and hour issues under the FLSA and state laws, both in lawsuits filed by plaintiffs’ attorneys and in federal and state department of labor investigations. Tip credit and ...
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