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How Does the New Overtime Rule Impact Highly Compensated Employees? 5 Answers for Employers

Many employers are scrambling to comply with the Labor Department’s new salary threshold for employees who are exempt from overtime pay under the white-collar exemptions. As the July 1 deadline for phase one rapidly...more

How to Conduct Terrible Employee Evaluations: Your 5-Step Plan on What Not to Do

If your workplace is anything like most others, your team probably dreads the annual performance review process. Employees don’t like receiving reviews and managers don’t like conducting them. In fact, only 26% of North...more

Workplace Law Forecast 2024 - Your workplace law recap for 2023 and predictions for 2024 to help you prepare for the coming year.

When I reflect on the relationship that our firm has with our clients, I’m most proud of the fact that you can always count on us. That often means defending complex litigation, steering you through regulatory threats,...more

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Employer FAQs on Liquidity Concerns in Light of the SVB Crisis

The recent collapse of Silicon Valley Bank highlights many of the concerns that employers might face should they find themselves in the midst of a liquidity crisis. Making payroll, arriving at decisions related to wage...more

Top 10 Workplace Law Predictions for 2023

It’s never easy to make accurate predictions about what we might expect to see in the workplace in the coming year. After all, at the start of 2020, no one could have predicted COVID-19. None of us had heard the phrase “the...more

Accept the Challenge and Develop a 6-Step Plan to Legally Manage Your Remote Employees

COVID-19 changed work as we know it. For more than two years, countless employees have worked remotely from the comfort of their homes and have not stepped foot into an office. Although some debate its benefits, there is...more

Top 10 Wage and Hour Trends for 2022 – and What Employers Should Do to Prepare

We recently provided our predictions for what employers could expect to see in the wage and hour field over the next year as part of our FP Forecast series – but we had too many insights to fit into that edition. So we’ve...more

An Employer’s Guide to Navigating Third-Party Vaccine Mandates on Visitors, Vendors, and More

As employers implement their own internal COVID-19 protocols and procedures, many have the additional burden of complying with third-party vaccine policies or enforcing their own vaccine policies upon non-employees such as...more

Can You Ask Applicants About Their Vaccine Status? 3 Options for Employers

As more businesses are requiring proof of vaccination for their employees and customers, a question that often arises is whether it is lawful to ask an applicant about their vaccine status. While we are generally hesitant...more

From Crisis Comes Opportunity: A Silver Linings Playbook For Businesses Emerging From the Pandemic

It’s been said that from crisis comes opportunity. And given that the COVID-19 pandemic has handed us the greatest collective crisis in our lifetimes, it should stand to reason that we should now be in the perfect position to...more

August 2020: The Top 17 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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

EEOC Offers Guidance To Employers Preparing To Reopen Their Workplaces

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has provided additional guidance for employers restarting and ramping up their businesses. The EEOC first published guidance for employers in March clarifying employer rights...more

Measuring Worker Temperatures Could Lead To Wage And Hour Claims

Employers could face potential wage and hour claims under federal and state law if they do not compensate employees for time spent having their body temperatures checked. While federal COVID-19 guidance allows employers to...more

Web Exclusive - September 2018: The Top 13 Labor And Employment Law Stories

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

Fast-Food Chain Employers: Take Steps Now to Avoid Being the Next FLSA Headline

On almost a daily basis, we read articles about class action lawsuits and settlements against fast-food chains. Almost all chains have had them. Fisher & Phillips has defended many of these lawsuits for different chains in...more

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