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Until last April, the Supreme Court had construed Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) exemptions “narrowly.” For example, just 7 years after the FLSA’s passage, the Court ruled in A.H. Phillips, Inc. v. Walling, that “extend[ing] an exemption to other than ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Yesterday, we discussed the Pay Period Leap Year and what it means for employers. If your first weekly paychecks would normally issue this Friday, January 1, 2016, you will have a fifty-third pay period on December 31, 2015. If your ...
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Historical records show that at least twice in history, countries have observed February 30 on the calendar. Sweden added the date to its 1712 calendar to correct an earlier calendar error and the Soviet Union observed February 30 in 1930 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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