California Employment News: Professional and Administrative Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - Professional and Administrative Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - The Executive Pay Exemption
Podcast: California Employment News - The Basics of Pay Exemptions
What Happens When the California Privacy Rights Act Employment Data Exemption Expires?
Employer Vaccine Mandates and Exemptions
State Law Privacy Video Series | Healthcare Entities and Health Data
State Law Privacy Video Series | Employee Exemptions
Podcast: The Briefing from the IP Law Blog - The Right to Repair and More New Exemptions
The Briefing from the IP Law Blog – DMCA: The Right to Repair and More new Exemptions
#WorkforceWednesday: New AB5 Exemptions, EEOC COVID-19 Updates, Joint-Employer Rule Partially Struck Down - Employment Law This Week®
When Dr. Strangelove Met Jimmy Hoffa
The CCPA for the Land Title Industry: Service Providers and Sale of Data Under the CCPA
[WEBINAR] Exploring the CPRA’s Investigatory Privilege
Ropes & Gray’s PEP Talk: General Solicitation by Private Equity Funds Under 506(c)
III-44- A Little Help From The DOL
[WEBINAR] Update on the California Environmental Quality Act: What’s New for 2018
I-18- DC Update on Joint Employer and OT Issues, and Part 1 of an Expert Interview on Pay Equity Audits
Employment Law This Week: Break Pay, Misclassification of Franchisees, California Computer Professional Exemption, Non-Compete Payment
Employment Law This Week: Defend Trade Secrets Act, Final Overtime Rule, Leave for Disabled Workers, OT Exemption Case
The 2nd Annual Athletic Department Toolkit Series: Balancing Compliance and Competitive Success in an Era of Change (Higher Education) - New year, new topics. Stay up-to-date on current and forward-looking legal and...more
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that employers pay certain employees one-and-a-half times their regular rate of pay for any hours they work over 40 in a workweek. There are, however, several exemptions from the...more
Employers have been required since August 20, 2023, when the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a notice of proposed rulemaking, to increase the minimum salary amount required to be paid to qualify for what is known as...more
The Supreme Court will soon hear a wage and hour case with massive implications for employers defending claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Depending on the outcome, the high court’s decision could make it far...more
On June 17, 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court announced that it will tackle a 6-1 circuit split and decide an important wage and hour issue for employers: what burden of proof an employer must satisfy to demonstrate that its...more
Sometimes, the only constant is change. This New Year is no different. In 2023, we saw several developments in labor and employment law, including federal and state court decisions, regulations, and administrative agency...more
2023 has brought many updates and changes to the legal landscape. Our blog posts have covered many of them, but you may not remember (or care to remember) them. Before moving on to 2024, let’s take a moment to review our top...more
To determine the minimum rate of pay or salary threshold applicable to certain exemptions from overtime regulations under California law, the Department of Industrial Relations (“DIR”) uses the California Consumer Price Index...more
Now is the time to review overtime exemptions and pay plans for sales employees to be ready for 2024. The changing tech economy has created a class of sales employees who may not fit traditional overtime exemptions. Moreover,...more
A common misconception is that individuals paid on a salary basis are not entitled to overtime. Another common miscommunication is that if an employee earns a high salary, then that exempts them from earning overtime. Both of...more
A coalition of 14 Democratic AGs sent a comment letter to the U.S. Department of Labor in support of a proposed rulemaking that updates rules governing executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) employees as related to...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has statutory authority to impose a salary requirement to qualify for an exemption from overtime under the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions under the Fair Labor...more
On August 30, 2023, the DOL announced a new proposed rule making changes to the FLSA’s so-called white-collar and highly compensated employee exemptions, increasing the salary threshold that employees must meet to qualify for...more
The employment law landscape can shift quickly to keep up with our rapidly evolving world of work. You can be better prepared by anticipating changes that could impact your business. Below are three areas in which legal...more
Until recently, employers had the luxury of interpreting the outside salesperson exemption to minimum wage, overtime and meal and rest period requirements at face value. This is because the definition of an “outside...more
The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (“FLSA”) created the right to a minimum wage and overtime pay. The FLSA also provides exemptions to overtime pay requirements for certain employees. Under the “bona fide executive”...more
The mere fact that the plaintiff was building livestock enclosures on farms did not necessarily preclude his entitlement to overtime pay under the agricultural exemption of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Seventh...more
The California Industrial Welfare Commission has 17 wage orders that apply to different employers based on their industry or occupation. Although other than minimum wage, these wage orders have not been updated since 2001,...more
This is a day I have been waiting for. The Supreme Court has decided to take on a case in which it will decide whether someone earning more than $200,000 per year, albeit paid on a day rate, can nonetheless meet the FLSA test...more
You may have missed it, but Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh perked up some ears last week when he discussed possibly raising the FLSA salary threshold for certain exempt employees. In testimony before a Congressional...more
Last summer, as part of a COVID-19-related spending bill, the Massachusetts legislature added Juneteenth Independence Day (June 19) to the list of premium pay holidays in the Commonwealth’s “Blue Laws.” Juneteenth now joins...more
Washington’s Supreme Court disrupted the state’s agricultural industry on November 5, 2020, when it held that the agricultural overtime exemption at RCW 49.46.130(2)(g) violated the state’s constitution as applied to dairy...more
Under California law, employers must pay their employees overtime rates unless an exemption applies. One such exemption, the “administrative” exemption, excludes from state overtime requirements an employee primarily engaged...more