On April 8, President Obama issued two executive orders which will impact employers who do business with the federal government. First, the President made it unlawful for contractors to retaliate against employees who discuss their pay. Second, the President ordered the…
Yearly Archives: 2014
President Obama Targets Equal Pay
Tagged with: Department of Labor, DOL, NLRB
Posted in Discrimination, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Discrimination, Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Congress Passes Rare Bipartisan Amendment to Obamacare
There is not a lot that Democrats and Republicans can agree on with respect to Obamacare, but on April 1, 2014 the President signed into law a Medicare bill which had a provision tucked inside that will bring some important…
Cozen Issues Labor Alert on NLRB Approving Unionization of College Athletes
As a follow up to the previous blog post, my firm Cozen O’Connor has issued a Labor Alert on the recent news story involving the NLRB allowing college football players to unionize. The full alert can be found here. About…
Posted in Uncategorized
NLRB Rules that College Football Players Can Unionize
Under the Obama administration, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has taken some radical positions, but its newest decision makes clear that all bets are off in the second term. The Regional Director of the NLRB office in Chicago ruled…
Cozen O’Connor Presents Wage and Hour Seminar
With all of the recent news surrounding the President’s efforts to overhaul the nation’s overtime laws, it is more important than ever to ensure that your business is complying with all state and federal wage and hour laws. I will…
Tagged with: Administrative Exemption, Department of Labor, DOL, overtime, salary exemption
Posted in Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Cozen Issues Alert on Effort to Update Overtime Rules
Cozen O’Connor has issued an alert regarding the recently announced plan to overhaul the overtime rules, including the salary exemption threshold. This is an important development that will affect all employers, and the full text can be found here. About…
Tagged with: Department of Labor, DOL, overtime, salary exemption
Posted in Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Federal Government, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Obama Administration to Rewrite Overtime Rules
This week, the Obama administration announced that it will revise the regulations governing the white collar overtime exemptions. The Department of Labor has not announced all of the changes it is looking to make, but one area up for review…
Tagged with: Administrative Exemption, Department of Labor, DOL
Posted in Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Daughter’s Facebook Post Voids Settlement of Dad’s Discrimination Lawsuit
Virtually every settlement agreement in an employment case includes a strict confidentiality clause warning the plaintiff of the requirement to keep the settlement amount secret. In a recent case which made national news, a daughter cost her father an $80,000…
Posted in Labor & Employment
Supreme Court to Hear Case Involving Payment for Waiting in Security Lines
One of the hot issues under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is whether employers should be required to pay employees for time spent waiting in security lines to access their job site. Employees argue that such time is required…
Avoiding Lawsuits From Interns
I recently gave an interview to Intuit Quickbase (another blog on Human Resources issues) on the subject of avoiding wage and hour lawsuits from interns. The interview can be found here, and provides some practical tips on this increasingly problematic…
Posted in Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
