Employers have been busy preparing and reviewing their exemptions, raising salaries, and/or making updates to their classifications to comply with the new overtime rule promulgated by the Department of Labor (DOL) that went into effect on Monday, July 1, 2024.… Continue Reading
Squire Patton Boggs presents a webinar to provide an overview of the past year’s most significant labor and employment decisions and emerging areas of the law in the United States. On 5 December 2018 at 4 p.m. GMT (5 p.m. CET, 11 a.m. EST, 8 a.m. PST) Jill Kirila, our US Labor & Employment Practice … Continue Reading
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has updated its poster for “Employee Rights Under the Fair Labor Standards Act.” The new poster adds information on lactation breaks and worker (mis)classification. Additionally, the DOL has made its new poster tech-friendly by including a scannable QR code which takes employees directly to the DOL website. The poster … Continue Reading
On Wednesday, January 20, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued an administrator’s interpretation [pdf] that includes guidelines for when companies should be considered “joint employers” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act (MSPA). The joint employer debate has been gaining steam over the past year. … Continue Reading
Most employers are well aware of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provisions which entitle qualifying employees to twelve weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave each year for certain events such as: the birth or adoption of a child; care for an immediate family member with a serious health condition; or the employee’s own serious … Continue Reading
A new model wage disclosure form issued by the California Labor Commissioner may create ambiguity about whether individuals are employed “at will” or under a contract requiring good reason for termination. The problem arises in the wake of the state’s Wage Theft Prevention Act which went into effect on January 1, 2012. The law requires … Continue Reading
As of January 1, 2012, eight states raised the minimum wage for workers. In Arizona ($7.65 per hour), Colorado ($7.64 per hour), Florida [pdf] ($7.67 per hour), Montana ($7.65 per hour), Ohio ($7.70 per hour), Oregon [pdf] ($8.80 per hour), Vermont ($8.46 per hour), and Washington ($9.04 per hour), workers will see an increase. These states … Continue Reading
As reported by the Department of Labor [pdf], the unemployment rate remains high. Employees who lose their jobs cannot easily find a new job resulting in more individuals filing for unemployment compensation. Many employers desire to contest unemployment claims while keeping costs down by utilizing the company’s managers or human resources department to handle the unemployment proceedings. However, in … Continue Reading
On September 28, two unpaid interns who worked on the movie “Black Swan” filed suit in federal court in New York against Fox Searchlight Pictures claiming unpaid wages, penalties and interest on behalf of themselves and 100+ other interns who also worked on the film. The interns allege they performed accounting and janitorial duties and … Continue Reading
The California legislature passed two new laws employers should not ignore. SB 459, now awaiting Governor Brown’s signature to go into law, imposes additional penalties against employers who are found to have willfully misclassified independent contractors. Willful misclassification is defined as “avoiding employee status for an individual by voluntarily and knowingly misclassifying that individual as … Continue Reading
