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…
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Obama Administration to Rewrite Overtime Rules
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
More Delays for Obamacare
Today, the IRS issued final regulations concerning the employer mandate portion of Obamacare. The imposition of the employer mandate had previously been postponed from 2014 to 2015, and now has been pushed back one more year for employers with less…
Tagged with: ACA, Obamacare
Posted in Federal Government, Healthcare Reform, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Federal Government, Healthcare Reform, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
David Barron and Nelsy Gomez To Speak at Southwest Meat Association
On February 19th, the Southwest Meat Association will be presenting its annual Mid-Year Conference. An agenda for the conference can be found here. Our firm will be providing two presentations related to employment law. I will be presenting on the…
Tagged with: ACA, immigration, presentations
Posted in Healthcare Reform, Immigration, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Posted in Healthcare Reform, Immigration, Labor & Employment, Wage and Hour
Target Joins Long List of Companies Slashing Health Benefits Because of Obamacare
This week, Target announced that it will no longer offer health insurance to part time workers. Target joins a long list of companies who have made the same decision, including Trader Joe’s and Home Depot. Details about the announcement can…
New Trend in Overtime Suits – HR Managers?
On January 10, a federal judge in Florida certified a nationwide collective action against Lowe’s Home Centers. If the story stopped there, it would be unremarkable since virtually every large company has been hit with wage and hour suits in…
NLRB Gives Up on Poster Fight
On January 6, 2014, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) gave up on its fight to require all employers to post a notice informing employees of their right to form a union. The NLRB’s mandatory poster rule was invalidated by…
Fifth Circuit Rules Class Action Waivers Are Lawful
The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (the federal appeals court with jurisdiction over Texas) struck a blow to the National Labor Relations Board’s attempt to outlaw mandatory class action waivers for employees. On December 3, 2013 the Court over-ruled the…
Tagged with: Arbitration, Collective Action, NLRB, Waiver
Posted in Labor & Employment, Uncategorized, Wage and Hour
Posted in Labor & Employment, Uncategorized, Wage and Hour
