The Big Corporation decides that it will start paying its Field Service Technicians on a day-rate basis, instead of on an hourly basis. Under the day-rate plan, a Technician will now receive a fixed amount of money for each...more
5/8/2013
- Day-Rate Pay FLSA Wage and Hour Wages
Pressure continues to mount for raising the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage in three stages from the current $7.25 per hour to (so far) $10.10 per hour. Under pending proposals, the rate would thereafter be...more
4/19/2013
- FLSA Minimum Wage Wage and Hour
As we have been reporting, March 12 was the deadline for submitting comments regarding the U.S. Labor Department's proposal "to collect information about employment experiences and workers' knowledge of basic employment laws...more
3/13/2013
- DOL Misclassification
Readers will recall our January post concerning the U.S. Labor Department's announced intention to "to collect information about employment experiences and workers' knowledge of basic employment laws and rules so as to better...more
2/20/2013
- DOL Misclassification Right To Know Surveys
As we speculated in November, the U.S. Labor Department apparently does intend to reinvigorate its so-called "Right to Know" initiative. This vague and ambiguous proposal first surfaced in 2010 but was eventually shelved....more
1/21/2013
- DOL FLSA Misclassification Right To Know
Recent reports have described more than one scenario in which an employer violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act because the employer failed to recognize that non-exempt employees' hours worked over 40 were overtime...more
1/2/2013
- FLSA Non-Exempt Employees Over-Time Wages
For many years, some employers have chosen to "round" non-exempt employees' time entries in computing their wages. News items in recent days have reported on a California appellate court's ruling in See's Candy Shops, Inc. v....more
12/1/2012
- DOL Rounding Wage and Hour
Volunteerism is again on the upswing as the holiday season enters its most-intense period. Businesses and other organizations should reacquaint themselves with the principles summarized in our November 2011 post cautioning...more
11/27/2012
- FLSA
Now that the election is behind us, employers should consider what they might anticipate in the field of wage-hour law, which is already one of the largest sources of employment-law claims. While the nature and number of the...more
11/13/2012
