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Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 30: Plaintiff Legal Trends with Paul Porter of Cromer, Babb & Porter
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The Chartwell Chronicles: Employment Law Updates
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Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 27: The Importance of Employment Counsel in Corporate Transactions with Laura Mallory and Ashley Parr of Maynard Nexsen
California Employment News - Navigating the New PAGA Reforms: What Employers Need to Know
California Employment News - Navigating the New PAGA Reforms: What Employers Need to Know (Podcast)
Employment Law Now VIII-145 â Status Update: Injunctions for FTC Non-Compete Ban and DOL Overtime Exemption Regs
California Governorâs PAGA Deal: What Employers Need to Know - Employment Law This WeekÂŽ
Hospice Labor and Employment Trends - Get Up to Speed Fast: What You Need to Know About the New Rules Involving Non-Competes and Exempt Employees
The Burr Broadcast: FLSA Overtime Exemption
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 22: Compensation Programs with Carrie Cavanaugh of Find Great People
California Employment News: Can Pre- and Post-Shift Activities Be Compensated
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 21: Economic, Industry, and Workforce Development in the City of Greenville with Mayor Knox White
Clocking in with PilieroMazza: Labor and Employment News for Government Contractors
EEO-1 Filing After June 4: What to Do Now, and How to Prepare for Next Year - Employment Law This WeekÂŽ
California Employment News: Brief Overview of Leave Laws All California Employers Should Be Aware Of (Podcast)
California Employment News: Brief Overview of Leave Laws All California Employers Should Be Aware Of
On June 24, 2024, a federal district court judge enjoined parts of the United States Department of Laborâs (US DOL's) August 23, 2023 prevailing wage rule that greatly expanded the definition of âconstructionâ on federal...more
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that employers pay certain employees one-and-a-half times their regular rate of pay for any hours they work over 40 in a workweek. There are, however, several exemptions from the...more
As March Madness gets underway, a California federal judge has called a flagrant foul and ejected the trucking industry from its ongoing battle to challenge Assembly Bill No. 5 (âAB5â)....more
Seyfarth Synopsis: On December 26, 2023, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (âFMCSAâ) announced they would be accepting comments from the public in response to multiple petitions requesting waivers from the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In August, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (âFMCSAâ) announced that it would start accepting petitions for waivers from the recent decisions preempting California and Washingtonâs meal and...more
Providers and commercial users of transportation services necessarily rely upon the predictability and uniformity afforded by national laws and regulations to support the efficient and reliable supply chains that are so...more
In California, Wage Order 9-2001 applies to âall persons employed in the transportation industry,â including property-carrying commercial truck drivers. (Cal. Code Regs., Tit. 8, § 11090(1).) Under the order, an employee...more
The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) regulates the hours of service for drivers of certain property-carrying commercial motor vehicles. The FMCSAâs regulations include meal and rest break rules that...more
Transportation providers would do well to pay close attention to twin developments unfolding before the NLRB and the DOL that could have a very detrimental effect on those providers who use independent contractors as drivers,...more
In the matter of Espinoza v. Hepta Run, Inc., et al. (Cal. Ct. App., Jan. 19, 2022, No. B306292) 2022 WL 167770, the Court of Appeal considered the following issue: Whether the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrationâs...more
In the spirit of the season, we are using our annual "12 days of the holidays" blog series to address new California laws and their impact on California employers. On this tenth day of the holidays, my labor and employment...more
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in California Trucking Association v. Bonta, has reversed the preliminary injunction staying enforcement of AB 5 (now Labor Code § 2775). ...more
The Situation: A district court in the Fifth Circuit granted conditional certification under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") to a class of allegedly misclassified truck drivers, analyzing certification using the widely...more
Ninth Circuit decision upholds the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration ("FMCSA") determination that federal law preempts Californiaâs meal and rest break laws with respect to Department of Transportation-regulated...more
International Brotherhood. of Teamsters, Local 2785 v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration No. 18-73488, 2021 WL 139728 (9th Cir. Jan. 15, 2021) - Summary:Â Federal law preempts Californiaâs meal and rest break...more
This week, we take a look at two Ninth Circuit decisions considering agenciesâ interpretations of the federal laws governing the employment relationship. In the first, the Court deferred to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety...more
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrationâs (FMCSA) determination that federal law preempts Californiaâs meal and rest break requirements as to drivers of...more
In one of the yearâs most anticipated court decisions for the trucking industry, International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Local 2785, et al. v. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, No. 19-70413 (January 15, 2021), the...more
On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Department of Labor issued four new opinion letters. The final Wage and Hour opinion letter issued by the DOL under the Trump administration, FLSA2021-9, addressed two issues related to the...more
The United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit on January 15 upheld the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administrationâs (âFMCSAâ) determination that federal law preempted Californiaâs meal and rest break rules (âMRB...more
On âhow stringently, and how soon, district courts should enforce [Fair Labor Standards Act] Section 216(b)âs âsimilarly situatedâ mandateâ when considering motions for certification of collective actions, the U.S. Court of...more
Colorado has followed the sweeping changes to its minimum wage, overtime, and other wage and hour rules implemented under Colorado Overtime and Minimum Pay Standards (COMPS) Order #36 with more changes, including a revamped...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: In a case involving motor carriers, the California Court of Appeal has held that the FAAAAÂ (Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act of 1994) does not preempt the ABC employment test California...more
On November 10, 2020, the Colorado Department of Labor and Employment, Division of Labor Standards and Statistics (Division) published the final Colorado Overtime and Minimum Pay Standards Order Number 37 (COMPS Order 37),...more
On August 31, 2020, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued four opinion letters, one of which, Opinion Letter FLSA2020-11, addressed whether certain employees in the oilfield services industry...more