Update: Governor Lamont vetoed this bill on July 12, 2019.
Bear with me because this is a story about how a little provision slipped in at the last minute and buried deep in a innocuously-titled bill will have big implications for the restaurant industry in Connecticut.
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
Summer feels really far away right now. It’s just been brutally cold here in the Northeast.
(How cold? Too cold for skiing. That’s brutal by any stretch.)
But summer WILL eventually come. So we’re told.
So the news late Friday that the U.S. Department of Labor was scrapping the test it had released just
Late yesterday, various press reports signaled what could be the beginning of the end for 2011 Department of Labor guidance that had greatly expanded legal claims against restaurants.
The 2011 rule barred businesses (mainly restaurants) from including nontipped workers in their tip pools. That practice – if done involuntarily – then entitles the servers or
The Connecticut Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision that will be officially released April 4, 2017, has ruled that employers may not use the “tip credit” for pizza delivery drivers and therefore, the employees must be paid the standard minimum wage.
You can download the decision in Amaral Brothers, Inc. v. Department of Labor here.
I have this running joke with my wife that anytime I’m on vacation, it seems that big employment news breaks.
And this vacation is no exception.
And it’s probably the biggest employment law news this year. Not the best time for me to have to write a blog post on my phone. Ah well. You
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
With the new federal overtime rules going into effect later this year, I thought it would be useful to talk about in a free webinar.
And apparently, many of you think it would be useful too because in the 48 hours that we’ve opened up the signups to our webinar, we already have a record-breaking
If you like to open your presents on Christmas Eve, the U.S. Department of Labor is for you. Last night, the DOL posted the final revised rule on overtime on its website ahead of its planned announcement this afternoon.
What a gift for employment lawyers! Needless to say, I was up late unwrapping all my