On April 23, 2024, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued its Final Rule significantly increasing both the standard salary threshold for exempt employees employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or...more
On August 30, 2023, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) concerning updates to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime regulations, specifically the executive,...more
On March 18, 2020, the President signed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act into law. The new law requires most employers with fewer than 500 employees to provide expanded FMLA leave and paid sick leave for certain...more
On Saturday, the United States House of Representatives, in a bipartisan effort, passed an economic relief bill, H.R. 6201, Families First Coronavirus Response Act, which is expected to go to vote in the Senate early...more
SHINING LIGHT INTO THE HEART OF DARKNESS:An Update on the Cuban Embargo -
I. Executive Summary -
Sixty years after the imposition of the Cuban Embargo, the orthodoxy and ideology that caused it to persist are no...more
On November 22, 2016, Judge Amos L. Mazzant of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) updated white collar...more
TO SUFFER OR PERMIT: How The Broad Scope Of The Fair Labor Standards Act Is Increasing The Risk Of Doing Business -
2016 is shaping up to be a troubling one for employers subject to the provisions of the Fair Labor...more
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What to Do When the Government Comes Calling -
In today’s complex world of e-commerce and international competition, increasingly governmental agencies (both state and federal) are resorting to “dawn raids” (i.e.,...more