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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
Insider Strategies for Wage and Hour Compliance Success: One-on-One with Paul DeCamp
(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
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
The rules governing the employment relationship are always changing. Laws creating new employer obligations, technology solutions making work more efficient and more complicated, and rules governing the resolution of disputes...more
For most non-exempt employees, the Fair Labor Standards Act considers time spent traveling during the working day to be compensable working time. Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals applied this principle to travel...more
The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that Colorado law is not like federal law when it comes to holiday pay. The Court found that the Colorado Minimum Wage Order (currently, COMPS Order 39) requires holiday incentive pay be...more
Employees who work away from home overnight on assignments lasting several days or weeks are entitled to compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for time spent traveling to such assignments when the travel...more
Employers are generally required to pay nonexempt employees overtime compensation of at least one and a half times their regular rate of pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek....more
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) has long argued that college athletes are amateurs exempt from minimum wage and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Until last week, courts around the United...more
Hot off the press – here is Littler’s mid-year report! As federal regulators, states and cities continue to pass new workplace regulations through the calendar year, we summarize each state’s notable labor and employment law...more
On April 23, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) finally released its final rule raising the salary threshold for overtime exemptions titled Defining and Delimiting the Exemptions for Executive, Administrative,...more
Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced its final overtime rule that completes the rulemaking process announced in August 2023 and raises the salary basis for overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards...more
Taking a “commonsense” approach, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit held that volunteers’ mere receipt of certain “perks” does not convert them to employees under the FLSA. In Adams v. Palm Beach County (11th...more
On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published its Final Rule on the standard for determining who is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The Final Rule is set to...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a final rule regarding the classification of workers as employees versus independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The final rule, which is effective...more
On August 30, 2023, the DOL announced a notice of proposed rulemaking that would increase the salary basis threshold under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for “white collar” exemptions (executive, administrative and...more
For the third time in eight years, employers again face uncertainty as to whether they may be considered a “joint employer” with another business. This question is not academic and can have real world consequences. What...more
On August 16, 2023, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Third Circuit vacated and remanded a decision from the Middle District of Pennsylvania ruling that the time spent by oil-rig workers changing in and out of their...more
Executive Summary: As Hurricane Ian bears down on Florida, the approaching storm serves as a reminder that employers should be prepared to address storm-related issues if they are required to close their businesses and as...more
Beginning July 6th of this year, hourly employees in the state of Ohio will have a new set of rules to follow in regard to their overtime pay. Last week, Governor DeWine signed Ohio Senate Bill 47 into law which was touted as...more
As employers hire new staff members, keep in mind individual state employment laws, ADA considerations and compensation requirements. At the beginning of the pandemic, large swaths of the country converted from in-person...more
Dear Littler: We are a multi-state employer with operations in multiple technology hubs, including Silicon Valley and Austin. Over the past several months we have heard from multiple applicants and employees about whether the...more
California employers must ensure that compensation rates for computer professionals meet updated salary thresholds, as of January 1, 2022. The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) issued a memo on October 18,...more
Hurricane Ida reportedly was the third most powerful storm on record to hit Louisiana when it landed on August 29, 2021. Indeed, more than 590,000 homes and businesses across the region still were without power as of...more
This week, we take a look at the Court’s decision attempting to navigate the fine line between employer payments that reimburse employees for expenses—and thus need not be considered in calculating the employees’ overtime...more
As of January 1, 2021, California employers must ensure that compensation rates for computer professionals meet the updated salary thresholds. In a memo issued on October 16, 2020 the California Department of Industrial...more
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) codifies the employment relationship as it relates to the payment of wages. The United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) administers the FLSA through its Wage and Hour Division....more