Podcast: California Employment News - The Executive Pay Exemption
California Employment News: The Executive Pay Exemption
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California Employment News: The Basics of Pay Exemptions
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Podcast: California Employment News - Using Employee Time Attestations
California Employment News: Using Employee Time Attestations
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California Employment News: Public Healthcare Workers Now Get Meal and Rest Breaks
On-Demand Webinar | California Employment Law Update: Tips for Staying Compliant in 2023
California Employment News: Meal and Rest Break Compliance for Non-Exempt Employees
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FLSA and Wage and Hour Issues for Restaurants
Case in Point -- Recent Updates in California Employment Law
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HR Law 101 Ep.3: What You Need to Know About Wage and Hour Laws
I-16 – Kneeling, Indefinite Leave, DC Updates, Non-Compete Consideration, and Pretty as a Protected Class
I-14: Update on EEO-1 and I-9 Forms, Employer Obligations After a Hurricane or Other Natural Disaster, and Attorney Jason Barsanti on Meal and Rest Breaks
Employment Law This Week: Break Pay, Misclassification of Franchisees, California Computer Professional Exemption, Non-Compete Payment
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In 2020, federal and state laws regulating wages and hours of work continued to change and develop, expanding in some areas, and contracting in others. In “2020 Wage & Hour Developments: A Year in Review,” we look back on...more
When is sleeping working? According to a recent DOL Opinion Letter, probably not when it occurs off duty in a sleeper berth of an over-the-road truck. A trucker’s job is to haul a load from Point A to Point B, which often...more
Trucking companies will no longer need to pay their drivers for certain off-duty time, potentially including time spent sleeping in their sleeper berth units, after the Labor Department issued an opinion letter yesterday...more
In two recent companion cases, Andryeyeva v. New York Health Care, Inc. and Moreno v. Future Care Health Services, Inc., the New York Court of Appeals upheld the New York State Department of Labor’s (NYSDOL) 13-hour rule for...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
In case you haven't noticed, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has been busy. After not issuing any opinion letters since 2009 during the Obama administration, the Wage and Hour Division ("WHD") of the DOL has issued 23...more
The Wage and Hour Division of the Department of Labor (DOL) had taken a break for the past 9 years from issuing Opinion Letters. These Letters are not binding/do not have the effect of law, but can be beneficial to employers...more
Last July, we posted on the U.S. Department of Labor’s announcement that it was reviving its practice of publishing opinion letters as guidance on wage and hour issues, which the Obama Administration halted in 2010. After...more
In a welcome departure from its recent practice, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently issued its first new opinion letters in almost ten years. In addition to issuing three new opinion letters...more
In January 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) returned to its practice of issuing opinion letters in response to specific employer inquiries, after an almost 10-year hiatus. Under the Obama administration, the DOL...more
On April 12, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued two opinion letters that should help employers determine when they must pay for an employee’s travel time and break time. The opinion...more
On April 12, 2018, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued an opinion letter addressing the intersection between the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) when an employee needs multiple...more
Back in January, we reported that the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) was reviving the agency’s practice of issuing opinion letters at the request of employers. The WHD stopped the practice of issuing...more
For more than 70 years, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division provided employers and attorneys with a valuable resource for determining how to comply with the federal laws and regulations the agency enforces....more
On April 12, 2018, the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced three new wage and hour opinion letters. The DOL only recently resumed issuing opinion letters on June 27, 2017, after having...more
On April 12, 2018, the United States Department of Labor issued three opinion letters that provide guidance on how employees without “normal working hours” should be compensated for travel time involving an overnight stay,...more
In an opinion letter issued on April 12, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor concluded that 15-minute breaks throughout the day required by an employee’s serious health condition are not compensable—notwithstanding the general...more
Last June, the U.S. Department of Labor announced that it would again issue opinion letters to assist employers and employees in interpreting laws like the FMLA and Fair Labor Standards Act. It was a welcome change as far as...more
Returning to its long-standing practice of issuing opinion letters (which had ceased in 2010), and after reissuing 17 previously withdrawn opinion letters on January 5, 2018, the Department of Labor (DOL) yesterday issued...more
As Littler reported in March of 2015, a New York Supreme Court, Kings County Justice found that sleep and meal periods must not be excluded from the hourly wages of a home attendant who does not reside in the home of his or...more