Minimum Wage, New Guidance, Over-Time

No Longer Doubling Down: DOL Will Not Seek Liquidated Damages in Wage Claims Before Suit

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 7/3/2025

The call or visit that no employer wants to receive: a Department of Labor representative asking to look at your payroll records. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) gives the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division...more

United States DOL announces that it will no longer oversee the payment of liquidated damages in FLSA administrative hearings

Fox Rothschild LLP on 7/1/2025

Last week the Wage and Hour Division of the United States Department of Labor (“WHD”) made a significant announcement concerning the available damages in administrative proceedings. In a field assistance bulletin it...more

DOL Wage and Hour Division to No Longer Seek Liquidated Damages

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 7/1/2025

On June 27, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued new field assistance indicating it will no longer seek liquidated damages in administrative matters against employers for unpaid minimum...more

Leadership Updates and a New Opinion Letter Program Confirm the U.S. Department of Labor’s Increased Focus on Compliance...

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on 6/11/2025

The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently named several political appointments to its Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”). Employers know WHD is an entity with vast enforcement authority, including over minimum wage and...more

DOL Signals Changes to Independent Contractor Rule

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 5/12/2025

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

U.S. DOL Rescinds Trump-Era Rule Regarding Joint-Employer Status Under the FLSA

FordHarrison on 8/3/2021

On July 29, 2021, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced that it would rescind the Trump-era rule (the “Joint Employer Rule”) pertaining to the determination of joint employers for purposes of assigning...more

Table for Two, Please: D.C. Department of Employment Services Issues Revised Guidance on Calculating Overtime Wages for Non-Exempt...

Mintz - Employment Viewpoints on 10/10/2019

Calculating overtime pay for tipped employees working in multiple positions at different rates in a single workweek can be confusing. So confusing, in fact, that we discovered that even the District of Columbia’s Department...more

DOL Issues Guidance on Payroll Rounding, Overtime Calculations, and Certain Paralegals

Akerman LLP - HR Defense on 7/24/2019

Employers looking for guidance on payroll rounding practices, classification of certain highly compensated paralegals and calculating overtime where employees receive non-discretionary bonuses will be glad to know the...more

DOL Pivots, Providing Guidance Likely To Mitigate Recent Blitz of Minimum Wage Class Actions Related to Sleep Time And Off Duty...

FordHarrison on 7/23/2019

Almost all long-haul drivers are exempt from overtime under the motor carrier exemption to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). However, these same drivers are not exempt from the FLSA’s minimum wage requirements. ...more

It Recently Got a Bit More Confusing for Massachusetts Employers of Tipped Employees

Conn Kavanaugh on 3/13/2019

With the recent increase of minimum wage rates of pay in Massachusetts, the publishing of guidance from the Attorney General related to minimum wages for tipped employees, and the absence of an exemption from overtime for...more

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