Employers who plan to resume business operations and return employees to the physical workplace after the relaxation of COVID-19 stay-at-home orders must consider how to best balance the reopening of their businesses with the...more
5/4/2020
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The 2019 Final Rule formally rescinds the Obama Administration’s 2016 Final Rule and increases the current minimum salary level by almost 50 percent and the current exemption salary level for highly compensated employees by...more
10/10/2019
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White-Collar Exemptions
Employers in the hospitality industry have been increasingly assessing and updating their tipping practices over the past several years, with some even eliminating tipping all together, affecting both their bottom lines and...more
On July 6, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor published a long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to amend the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations implementing the exemption from minimum wage and overtime...more
In Teed v. Thomas & Betts Power Solutions, LLC, the 7th Circuit in an opinion written by Judge Posner held that, absent a good reason to withhold liability, a purchaser of assets was subject to successor liability for Fair...more