A Tip on Tips – the DOL’s Tip Credit Rule is Upheld by a Federal Court
Contributed by Brandon Anderson On May 29, 2012, a federal district court in Washington, D.C. upheld the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) “tip credit.” The...
View ArticleCourt Upholds the DOL’s Interpretation That Loan Officers Are Not Exempt from...
Contributed by Jon Hoag The administrative exemption continues to trouble the financial services industry. On June 6, 2012, a federal district court rejected the Mortgage Bankers Association’s legal...
View ArticleU.S. Supreme Court Holds Pharmaceutical Sales Reps Exempt from the Overtime...
Contributed by Samantha Esmond On May 16, we reported on the Seventh Circuit decision on whether pharmaceutical representatives are exempt under the FLSA. At the time, we were still waiting for the...
View ArticleNew October 1, 2013 Deadline for Employers to Notify Employees of Health Care...
Contributed by Rebecca Dobbs Bush In January, the DOL delayed the March 1, 2013 effective date of the notice requirements in Section 18B of the Fair Labor Standard Act to late summer or fall of 2013....
View ArticleD.C. Circuit Court Vacates U.S. DOL Interpretation Classifying Mortgage Loan...
Contributed by Samantha Esmond On July 2, 2013, the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) prior 2010 administrative...
View ArticleMarketplace Notices – to Comply or Not to Comply?
Contributed by Rebecca Dobbs Bush The deadline for employers to provide current employees with notice of health care coverage options available through the ACA Marketplace is October 1, 2013, right...
View ArticleSign of the Times 2014: NLRB and DOL Are Poised to Proceed With Pro-Labor Rules
Contributed by Beverly Alfon Employers have been playing a game of wait-and-see for the past couple of years. In 2011, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) and the Department of Labor (DOL)...
View ArticleDo Your COBRA Notices Comply with the ACA?
Contributed by Kelly Haab-Tallitsch Earlier this month, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued proposed regulations revising the COBRA notice requirements to align with the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and...
View ArticleNLRB to Encourage Charging Parties to File Claims under OSHA and the FLSA
Contributed by Michael F. Hughes In a recent memorandum, the Office of the General Counsel for the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”), informed all regional directors that the NLRB had entered...
View ArticleIs Your Company Prepared for the U.S. Department of Labor’s Amendments to the...
Contributed by Sara Zorich On March 13, 2014, we reported that President Barack Obama signed a Presidential Memorandum directing his Secretary of Labor to update the regulations to expand the number of...
View ArticleOSHA Inspection Guide: In Preparation for Increased OSHA Enforcement in 2015
Contributed by Jonathon Hoag and Matthew Horn Numerous employers can verify first hand that OSHA is actively fulfilling the promise it made a few years ago, “to get back in the enforcement business.”...
View ArticleDOL Reports Mixed Results for 2014: Union Membership Declines in Private...
Contributed by Sara Zorich On January 23, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released its 2014 Union Membership Annual Report. Most notably was a decrease in union membership overall by .2%....
View ArticleNew “Place of Celebration” DOL Final Rule Increases the Availability of FMLA...
Contributed by Steven Jados On February 25, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule modifying the definition of “spouse” under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act. This final rule,...
View ArticleSupreme Court Holds that Mortgage Loan Officers are Eligible for Overtime
Contributed by Michael Wong On March 9, 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in Perez v. Mortgage Bankers Association that should put all employers on notice. In this decision, the Court held...
View ArticleUrgent Alert: U.S. DOL Proposes Major Changes to Exempt Salary Status
Contributed by Jeff Risch and Sara Zorich Today, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has announced that they are issuing a proposed rule to increase the minimum salary requirements under the Fair...
View Article5, 4, 3, 2, 1… Happy New Year! A Look Ahead to 2016 and Employment Laws
Contributed by Heather Bailey Everyone rings in the New Year differently – some with a party with friends and family, sparkling grape juice with their kids, traveling to a new destination or watching...
View ArticleToo Hot in the Kitchen for Restaurant With Prior Notice from the DOL of Wage...
Contributed by Heather Bailey A recent case out of the Northern District of Texas demonstrates just how important it is to listen to the Department of Labor (DOL) when they come knocking on your door....
View ArticleURGENT ALERT: U.S. DOL PUBLISHES FINAL OVERTIME RULE
Contributed by Jeff Risch and Sara Zorich, May 18, 2016 Today the US Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued its long awaited final rule increasing the minimum salary requirements under the Fair Labor...
View ArticleAre you ready for December 1st? The FLSA Salary Changes Are Almost Here
Contributed by Sara Zorich, October 13, 2016 The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) implementation of its Final Overtime Rule and an increase for salaried exempt employees to $913/week is set to go into...
View ArticleDOL FLSA Overtime Rule May Be Suspended
Contributed by Heather Bailey, November 17, 2016 The Honorable Judge Amos L. Mazzant III in the pending DOL overtime preliminary injunction lawsuit, State of Nevada et al v. United States Department of...
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