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Employment Law Now VIII-154 - Court Invalidates DOL's 2024 Overtime Salary Threshold Increases
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The Burr Broadcast: FLSA Overtime Exemption
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VIDEO: Major Changes Coming for Employers
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The Burr Broadcast: New Independent Contractor Rule
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Podcast: California Employment News - The Basics of Pay Exemptions
California Employment News: The Basics of Pay Exemptions
Podcast: California Employment News - Department of Labor Guidance on Telework
California Employment News: Department of Labor Guidance on Telework
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Competing House and Senate bills have the potential to reshape how the IRS taxes tips and overtime wages. The Senate recently passed the “No Tax on Tips Act” while the House budget reconciliation bill proposes deductions for...more
In recent months, the Department of Labor (DOL) has seen an overhaul of its agency leadership. First, President Trump appointed Secretary of Labor Lori Chavez-DeRemer and Deputy Secretary Keith Sonderling, and more recently,...more
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin has signed Senate Bill 1218 into law, amending the state’s non-compete statute. Effective July 1, 2025, the updated law will broaden restrictions on non-compete agreements in Virginia....more
In February 2024, we reported the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Final Rule revising the DOL’s guidance on how to analyze who is an employee or independent contractor for purposes of minimum wage and overtime pay...more
Tax breaks on overtime pay and tipped earnings passed the House on May 22, 2025, as part of the “One Big Beautiful Bill Act” (H.R. 1). The tax deductions provided under the sprawling reconciliation bill would be temporary,...more
Surging changes to workplace laws understandably have employers suffering from whiplash. Historically, employment laws have shifted when presidential administrations have changed. A May 1 announcement by the U.S. Department...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“DOL”) under the Trump administration has doubled down on its commitment to the traditional economic-realities analysis for determining whether workers are employees or...more
On May 1, 2025, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) published the first Field Assistance Bulletin of the year providing guidance to Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) field staff regarding the proper analysis to apply...more
Surging changes to workplace laws understandably have employers suffering from whiplash. Historically, employment laws have shifted when presidential administrations have changed. A May 1, 2025, announcement by the U.S....more
Tech employers have a wide range of workers, which increases the risk of misclassifying employees as exempt from overtime pay. Since violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) can result in significant penalties and...more
This week, we are catching up on developments from the Department of Labor for determining whether someone is an independent contractor or employee, a nomination to restore a quorum at the EEOC, continued cuts to K-12...more
After meeting with former University of Alabama football coach and seven-time national champion Nick Saban, President Trump is considering forming a college sports commission and issuing an executive order to establish...more
On May 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (Division) issued Field Assistance Bulletin (FAB) No. 2025-1 (“FAB 2025-1”), announcing that it is currently working to reformulate the test as to...more
What You Need to Know - The U.S. Department of Labor has announced it will no longer enforce the 2024 independent contractor rule under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), reverting to the more employer-friendly 2008...more
During the Biden administration, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final regulation (the “2024 Rule”) seeking to increase the salary threshold for overtime eligibility for the “white-collar” exemption (also referred...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) will no longer apply the 2024 independent contractor final rule when analyzing whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The...more
On May 1, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced it is reconsidering the 2024 Independent Contractor Rule (2024 Rule), which made it more difficult for businesses to classify independent contractors under the Fair...more
In this episode of OK at Work, Sarah Sawyer and Russell Berger from Offit Kurman delve into the intricate and often confusing topic of independent contractor classification. They discuss the various tests and criteria used at...more
No one should be surprised that the independent contractor pendulum—which swings towards making that classification harder in Democratic administrations and easier in Republican ones—is now tilting towards making it easier....more
Effective July 1, new legislation will take effect in Virginia imposing further restrictions on the use of covenants not to compete and prohibiting their use for employees who are eligible to receive overtime pay under the...more
On March 24, 2025, Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed Senate Bill 1218 into law, expanding the Commonwealth’s restrictions on non-competition agreements. Effective July 1, 2025, Virginia employers will be prohibited from...more
On May 1, 2025, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued a Field Assistance Bulletin, announcing that it will no longer enforce a 2024 Biden-era independent contractor rule under the...more
Last month, the most significant legal development in the area of independent contractor (IC) compliance and misclassification was on Capitol Hill. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a Senate Republican who chairs the Senate Health,...more
As many employers are hiring summer staff, now is a good time to brush up on new developments in child labor, wage and hour, and workplace safety laws. These legal compliance matters may be particularly relevant to employers...more
In 2024, the Department of Labor adopted regulations limiting the definition of independent contractors exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime and minimum wage requirements....more