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Husch Blackwell LLP

Keeping the "H" in "HR" – a Primer on the DOL's AI Guidance

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Recently, the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor issued a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) that provides guidance for employers on the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to the Fair Labor...more

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DOL Issues Guidance to Agency Staff on Employers’ Use of Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace

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The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has published a Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) on the application of federal labor standards to employers’ use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other automated...more

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DOL Raises Salary Thresholds for Exempt Workers

Under the FLSA, employees must meet the above salary thresholds and the duties tests for executive, administrative, or professional employees for the employees to be exempt from the FLSA’s overtime pay requirements. Employees...more

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Rounding Time Is No Longer a Safe Bet in Oregon and Washington

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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) mandates that employers compensate employees for each hour worked. Nonetheless, the Department of Labor guidance permits rounding of employee time punches so long as, among other things,...more

Goldberg Segalla

Employer Compliance with FLSA Wage and Hour Laws at the Beginning and End of Daylight Saving Time

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Key Takeaways - Employers who have employees working overnight shifts when daylight saving time ends and standard time begins must pay these employees an additional hour. Employers also should review the total hours these...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Clocking In: What Employers Need to Watch for in Recent Court Decision on Unpaid Working Time

For decades, the Department of Labor (DOL) has recognized the impracticability of requiring Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) nonexempt employees to clock in exactly at the beginning of their scheduled shifts. In most...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

What to Do When Your Timekeeping System Crashes

A number of companies suffered collateral damage last winter as a result of a cyber attack on a major provider of time and attendance software.  With your timekeeping systems compromised, how do you determine what to pay your...more

Akerman LLP - HR Defense

Employees Are Responsible for Logging Remote Work Hours

Employers have struggled with identifying remote working hours for non-exempt employees juggling telework, child care and/or virtual learning during the pandemic. Employees will now bear the burden of properly recording those...more

BakerHostetler

DOL Issues Guidance on Employers’ Obligation to Pay Nonexempt Employees for Time Worked Remotely

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Employers and employees alike have had much confusion around proper compensation when nonexempt employees work remotely – particularly in today’s time when many employees are teleworking and working crazy schedules due to...more

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U.S. Department of Labor Issues New Guidance on Remote Work

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a transformation of the workplace and an explosion of remote work, including for employees previously not covered under employers’ telecommuting policies. Despite the reopening of most state...more

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USDOL Reminds Employers to Track and Pay for Remote Work Hours Accurately

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On August 24, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new Field Assistance Bulletin, reminding employers that they must use reasonable diligence to track and pay for all hours worked while employees are working...more

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DOL Guidance Reminds Employers to Track Teleworking Employee Hours

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As many employers struggle with the realistic possibility that remote work will continue into the foreseeable future, on August 24, 2020, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) issued a...more

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Department of Labor Issues Opinion Letter Regarding Timekeeping Rounding Practices

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On July 1, 2019, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor issued several new opinion letters. One such letter, FLSA 2019-9, concerns an employer’s use of payroll software to calculate the wages owed to its...more

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Top 50 Workplace Law Stories Of 2018

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It’s hard to keep up with the news these days. It sometimes feels like you can’t step away from your phone, computer, or TV for more than an hour or so without a barrage of new information hitting the headlines—and you’re...more

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Department of Labor Reissues 2009 Opinion Letter Regarding Tip Credits Under FLSA

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In 2009, the U.S. Department of Labor issued an opinion letter which clarified the DOL’s position regarding the application of “tip credits” to employees who performed multiple job functions for an employer. However, shortly...more

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USDOL Cleans Up Its “20% Rule” Mess

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The United States Department of Labor (USDOL) issued four opinion letters yesterday in which it construed issues arising under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The most significant of these letters, FLSA2018-27,...more

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What exactly is “de minimis”? How to address off-the-clock work in light of modern technologies

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Smartphones have changed the employment landscape. Non-exempt employees can communicate via text or email any time of day or night, and may be expected to. My habit in the evenings is to check my work email, even if only to...more

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A Partial FLSA Wish List

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Presidential elections have typically sparked speculation about possible changes in employment laws and enforcement policies. But this seems to be especially true now, due in part to the discussion already occurring about...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Retailer - Summer 2016

FLSA white-collar exemption rule has retail employers in the bulls-eye - The U.S. Department of Labor’s new rule regarding white-collar exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act has a lot of employers scrambling,...more

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The New Overtime Rule: Yes, It Really Is Happening – Are You Ready?

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The Department of Labor has issued its final rule revising the overtime regulations for "white collar workers" and the rule goes into effect December 1, 2016 - just four months away. This webinar will explain the new rule,...more

Tucker Arensberg, P.C.

Rounding of Hours for Non-Exempt Employees

A question I am frequently asked is how an employer should pay an hourly, non-exempt employee when that employee does not work exactly an 8 hour day. The answer is that the Department of Labor allows employers to round...more

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"10% Credit" Approach Might Necessitate Timekeeping

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Management need not keep hours-worked records for employees who qualify for one of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(1) executive, administrative, professional, outside-sales, and derivative exemptions. 29...more

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Ninth Circuit Affirms Use of FLSA "Rounding" Rule for Recording Time Worked

For more than a half-century, Department of Labor regulations issued under the Fair Labor Standards Act have allowed employers to adopt an administrative rounding policy to prevent situations where the employer would be...more

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"Exceptions Reporting" Timekeeping:  Is It The Answer?

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Due to coming changes in the U.S. Labor Department's compensation requirements for the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's "white collar" exemptions, many employers will no longer rely upon those exemptions for at least some...more

McCarter & English, LLP

Takeways from the DOL’s Final Overtime Pay Rule

On May 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) released its long-expected Final Rule, making certain significant changes to the executive, administrative, and professional (“EAP”) and highly compensated executive...more

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