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(Podcast) California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
California Employment News: Back to the Basics of Employee Pay Days
The Evolution of Equal Pay: Lessons From 9 to 5 — Hiring to Firing Podcast
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(Podcast) California Employment News: Breaking Down Los Angeles’ Fair Work Week Ordinance
California Employment News: Breaking Down Los Angeles’ Fair Work Week Ordinance
Keeping Up with Exemption Threshold Regulations
Are Overtime Wages and Tips Exempt From Income Tax? What Employers Need to Know to Prepare
Excessive Compensation: What to do when the co-owners of your business pay themselves excessively
California Employment News: Document Checklist for Departing Employees (Podcast)
California Employment News: Document Checklist for Departing Employees
OK at Work: Navigating Snow Days, Office Closures, and Remote Work Planning
Employment Law Now VIII-157 - Top 5 L&E Issues to Watch in 2025
Updated Leave Laws Employers Need to be Aware of for 2025
Constangy Clips Ep. 6 - Federal Court Blocks DOL Rule: What Employers Need to Know
Employment Law Update: Staying Compliant in 2025
Holiday Headaches: Avoiding Legal Risks with PTO, Overtime, and Workplace Festivities
(Podcast) California Employment News – Key Employment Law Updates: What’s Changing in 2025
Following the US Supreme Court’s decision in Loper Bright announcing the end of Chevron deference, lower federal courts have begun to apply the decision to uphold some federal wage-hour rules while striking down others; state...more
Last year in a rare victory for the Department of Labor, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected a claim by a Dairy Queen franchisee that the Fair Labor Standards Act prohibits DOL from establishing any minimum salary for...more
Did you keep up with all the workplace law updates in 2024? Take our quiz to see if you can score a perfect 10 or need to do some catch-up work. After jotting down your answers, use the answer key at the end (no peeking!) to...more
Welcome to our year-end issue of The Site Report! As always, the construction industry is ever-changing and is impacted by extreme weather, new technology, labor issues, material and supply chain restraints, and code changes....more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a final rule on Dec. 17, 2024, restoring the pre-2021 language of the “dual jobs” regulation for tipped employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This is a technical...more
As we close out 2024 and look to 2025, I polled members of Spilman, myself included, to get their take on some of the biggest labor and employment developments from 2024 that have or will impact employers. You can find more...more
On November 15, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Department of Labor’s (DOL) 2024 overtime rule, which significantly raised the salary thresholds for overtime exemptions under the...more
A federal judge in Texas seemed skeptical that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) did not overreach with its latest rule that raised the minimum salary thresholds to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) white-collar overtime...more
Federal law recognizes that certain “white collar” positions can be exempt from the mandatory payment of overtime compensation if the position in question satisfies certain criteria set forth in federal regulations – a...more
On August 12, 2024, the Association of Christian Schools International (ACSI), a Colorado-based nonprofit that supports evangelical Christian schools, filed a complaint against the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) challenging...more
What about those salary thresholds for white-collar employees? Although they have been challenged, they are alive and kicking. Last week, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed that the Department...more
On September 11, 2024, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) authority to use a salary basis to define its white-collar overtime exemptions....more
On August 23, 2024, in Restaurant Law Center v. DOL, the Fifth Circuit vacated the Department of Labor’s (DOL) final rule concerning tipped employees. Citing the Supreme Court’s recent decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo,...more
On August 23, 2024, in Restaurant Law Center v. U.S. Department of Labor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit vacated the U.S. Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) December 2021 final rule that had set strict limits on...more
On August 23, 2024, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a final rule promulgated by the Department of Labor (“DOL”) restricting when employers could take a tip credit for tipped employees under the Fair Labor...more
In two separate rulings this week, federal agencies were stopped from enforcing new rulemaking that would significantly remake key areas of employment and non-discrimination law. In the first of these cases, Dept of...more
The Department of Labor’s decision to significantly increase the minimum salary required to claim the so-called white-collar exemptions from federal overtime requirements has prompted legal challenges from employers. ...more
As we previously reported, the Department of Labor (DOL) published its final rule, “Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative, Professional, Outside Sales, and Computer Employees,” on April 23,...more
A Fifth Circuit panel heard oral argument on Wednesday, August 7, on whether Department of Labor (DOL) regulations imposing a salary requirement to satisfy the executive, administrative and professional exemptions is valid....more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law, especially since the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace. In order to ensure you stay on top of the latest changes and have an action plan...more
The Supreme Court’s recent landmark ruling that gives employers a powerful tool to fight back against regulatory overreach will have a broad impact on just about every area of workplace law – and every industry. We’re looking...more
After much nail biting and wondering when to jump the train track, on July 1, 2024, the new overtime thresholds for non-exempt employees went into effect for everyone – outside of Texas. Now the rest of us are subject to the...more
Welcome to the Summer issue of SuperVision, our labor and employment e-newsletter. We continue to see substantial activity and legal developments impacting employers. In this edition, we cover Artificial Intelligence,...more
The Supreme Court issued several momentous decisions last term that will have a lasting impact on employer practices. The Justices continued to shape the workplace law landscape by ruling on an array of issues involving...more