My colleague, Mick Lavelle, has this post on a topic that few know about and even fewer understand: The Fluctuating Work Week. For more background on the subject, I’ve talked about it in earlier posts here and here. Interpretation of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act is aided by hundreds of pages of regulations and U.S…. Continue Reading
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U.S. Department of Labor Proposes New Wage/Hour Regulations
Posted in Laws and Regulations, Wage & HourBuried deep, deep, deep in Monday’s Federal Register was a quiet announcement that the U.S. Department of Labor was proposing some new wage/hour regulations interpreting the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (download here). In the "summary" section, the DOL states that the new regulations are needed because the regulations, in some cases, are out… Continue Reading
