Three years ago, I floated the idea that perhaps an agency could come up with a modest “amnesty” program that would give employers a chance to get into compliance with FLSA laws, without facing the draconian consequences such an admission might entail.
Now, late yesterday, the United States Department of Labor announced its own pilot
There is news in the employment law world beyond sexual harassment. Arbitration clauses to be exact.
Yesterday, the Second Circuit issued a small, but important decision for employers that will continue to limit FLSA wage & hour claims.
The court ruled that an employee’s FLSA claims in court were barred by the arbitration clause contained
My colleague, Gabe Jiran, returns the blog today with this quick post updating us on where things stand on the DOL’s proposed changes to the overtime rules (and providing me with an excuse to link to one of the few songs to mention “overtime” in the title.)
As you may recall from
I had a lot of plans this week to do another deep dive into an employment law issue but then, well, let’s just say life happens.
Among the things? Lots of questions from clients about the new overtime rules. While everyone has had months to plan, there are definitely a few procrastinators out there.
But
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to talk at the Connecticut Legal Conference about employment law issues. My talk focused on free speech rights in the workplace — a topic I’ve covered well in some prior posts here and here, for example.
One of the other topics
Over the weekend, I finished planning for our webinar tomorrow on the new overtime rules. In digging deeper into the materials produced by the Department of Labor on the final rule, I looked at the use of volunteers as a solution — particularly for non-profit organizations.
For the “for-profit” world, this is probably not a
Are you tired of lawyers commenting already on the new overtime rules?
(The answer should be no, of course, since you’re reading this blog and thus have room for one more view.)
But I think it’s fair to say that we haven’t seen a feeding frenzy
Late Monday, several reports on Twitter indicated that the Department of Labor would be announcing and releasing the final version of the revisions to the white-collar overtime regulations. You can see my prior posts on the subject here and here.
This has been a long time
Walter Olson, who has been blogging at Overlawyered longer than just about anyone, has a very notable story about the Obama administration’s efforts to expand wage & hour law and intensify its enforcement.
In so doing, the U.S. Department of Labor has invoked a little known provision under the Fair Labor Standards Act called a
Yesterday on Twitter, a Connecticut legislator posted this:
“There oughta be a law…!” Hey Connecticut, legislators have 5 days to submit ideas for bills. What new laws should the #CTLeg consider?
— Matt Lesser (@MattLesser) January 12, 2015
State Representative Matt Lesser, be careful what you ask for. But since you asked, here’s a