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Client Alert: Nonprofit Employers - Take Note of New FLSA Overtime Rules Effective July 1st

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Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule modifying the standard for determining whether employees qualify for several key exemptions to the overtime pay requirements set by the Fair Labor...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Preferred pronouns and the aging workforce

What takes priority? There was a social media storm this week after a large non-profit organization terminated a volunteer after the volunteer questioned the point of having preferred pronouns in signature blocks. The woman...more

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Cozen Cites - October 18, 2023

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BALTIMORE — AI to Help Baltimore Agencies Bridge Language Gaps- By year’s end, the City of Baltimore will be deploying a new AI-backed service to help 911 dispatchers communicate with callers in their native language...more

DirectEmployers Association

OFCCP Week In Review: July 2022 #4

The DE OFCCP Week in Review (WIR) is a simple, fast and direct summary of relevant happenings in the OFCCP regulatory environment, authored by experts John C. Fox, Candee Chambers and Cynthia L. Hackerott. In today’s edition,...more

Bond Schoeneck & King PLLC

Update and Discussion on Practical and Legal Issues - NYS Paid Sick Leave, NYC Employment Law Update, New Whistleblower Law,...

Our weekly Business in 2021 series will continue to cover how the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we do business as well as other topics relevant in today’s business environment. Our 45-minute webinar provides timely...more

Allen Matkins

Volunteer Loses Bid For Employee Classification

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Nonprofit organizations depend heavily upon their volunteers.  What if a court were to hold that volunteers were in fact employees  entitled to minimum and overtime wages, meal and rest breaks, wage statements and other...more

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AB 736 Expands Professional Exemption

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On September 9, 2020, Governor Newsom signed Assembly Bill (“AB”) 736, which expands the professional exemption under Industrial Welfare Commission (“IWC”) Wage Orders Nos. 4-2001 and 5-2001 to include part-time, or...more

Jackson Walker

Frequently Asked Questions: Labor & Employment for Nonprofit Organizations

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The questions and answers below highlight labor and employment topics as they relate to nonprofit organizations. Classifying Your Staff - What is the difference between a paid employee and an unpaid volunteer? Under...more

ArentFox Schiff

Wage and Hour Division Ends Practice of Seeking Liquidated Damages in Pre-Litigation Settlements

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The US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced a policy change that is sure to please employers facing administrative FLSA back wages claims. Effective on July 1, 2020, the Division will cease to routinely...more

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Chicago City Council Passes Sweeping Scheduling Ordinance

On July 24, 2019, the Chicago City Council passed the most sweeping predictive scheduling ordinance in the country to date. Effective July 1, 2020 (January 1, 2021, for “safety-net” hospitals), the Chicago Fair Workweek...more

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Federal Court Rejects Free Speech Challenge to New York City's Payroll Deduction Law

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On February 6, 2018, a New York federal judge rejected a challenge to a New York City law requiring fast-food businesses to, upon request of their employees, forward voluntary deductions from employee paychecks to nonprofits....more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

U.S. Labor Department Says Religious Community Members Are Not Employees

Nonprofit entities often question the dividing line between volunteer work and work considered compensable employment. On December 21, the federal Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued an opinion letter...more

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Philadelphia Increases Minimum Wage Rate for City Workers and Contractors

On December 20, 2018, Mayor Jim Kenney signed an ordinance that will raise the minimum wage for all Philadelphia municipal government workers, contractors, and subcontractors from the current rate of $12.20 per hour to $15.00...more

Fisher Phillips

USDOL Opinion Letters Remind All That Nuances Matter

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Despite most of the government being occupied with the "shutdown" dilemma, the unaffected USDOL has remained busy and gifted us with two opinion letters on Friday: an enlightening one regarding certain volunteers and a simple...more

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Four New U.S. DOL Wage & Hour Opinion Letters

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The federal Department of Labor (DOL) issued four new opinion letters last week that address various compliance requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In the accompanying press release, the DOL said that the...more

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

DOL Endorses Volunteer Treatment of Certification Exam Graders

DOL Opinion Letter confirms that volunteer status not jeopardized by nonprofit payment of expenses. Department of Labor Opinion Letter endorses non-employee classification of member volunteers at nonprofit, without...more

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DOL Issues Employer-Friendly Opinion Letters

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Last week, on August 28, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued four Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) opinion letters. In welcome late-summer news to employers, each opinion is employer-friendly....more

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Key Portion Of NYC’s Fair Workweek Law Put On Pause

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One of the key provisions of New York City’s Fair Workweek Law was just put on hold while a federal judge sorts out a constitutional challenge brought by two restaurant advocacy organizations. The “Deductions Law” portion of...more

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DOL Gives Credit to Unpaid Student Interns After Getting Schooled by the Courts

Over the last few years, several federal courts—and, most recently last month, another appellate court—rejected the Obama administration’s mandatory six-prong test for whether someone can properly be classified as an unpaid...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Nonprofits Can Avoid Overtime Requirements If They Avoid 'Enterprise' Status

Last year’s proposal to increase the minimum salary to qualify for exemption from federal overtime requirements hit nonprofit employers particularly hard. While the new salary levels never went into effect, many nonprofits...more

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The Fight for 15: Montgomery County, Maryland, Raises the Bar

Montgomery County, Maryland, has approved Bill 28-17, which increases the countywide minimum wage from $11.50 to $15.00. The nine-member Montgomery County Council voted unanimously in support of the bill on November 7, 2017,...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

A Reminder: Increased Minimum Wages for Santa Monica and Los Angeles

An increase in temperatures will not be the only increase employers will see this July: employers in the City of Los Angeles and in the City of Santa Monica are reminded that minimum wages will increase starting on July 1,...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

Q&A on the FLSA’s Changes to Overtime Exemptions

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Last month, we discussed the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) recently published final rule making changes to the so-called “white collar” overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). We also presented a...more

Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP

New DOL Overtime Rule Changes the Landscape for Nonprofits, Too

On May 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“DOL”) issued a final rule modifying overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The final rule increases the salary threshold for overtime...more

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP

DOL's New Salary Rule on Overtime Will Impact Many Nonprofits

As you’ve likely heard, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released its final regulations on May 18, 2016, changing the overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In short, most salaried employees...more

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