On August 12, 2021, the newly appointed and narrowly confirmed General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board, Jennifer Abruzzo, issued a Memorandum outlining the Board’s first steps in undoing every significant...more
The U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado decided that a sufficiently high day rate, although not a “salary” per se, was sufficient to satisfy the “salary basis” requirement for the FLSA’s white collar exemptions....more
On January 26, 2020, the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division withdrew three Opinion Letters released the week prior to Biden’s inauguration, including FLSA 2021-4 (discussed in the blog post here) as well as...more
On September 22, 2020, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) proposed regulations intended to make it easier for companies to classify workers as independent contractors. The proposed rule offers a framework for...more
Even the courts have noticed that U.S. workers often hold more than one job. Yesterday the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals held that police officers who worked second jobs as security guards or directing traffic were not...more