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Time Is Money: A Quick Wage-Hour Tip on … Determining and Changing Workweeks
USA - September 15 2022 Perhaps one of the most important terms of art under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), an employer’s designated…
Time Is Money: A Quick Wage-Hour Tip on … Avoiding Common California Wage and Hour Mistakes and “Going the Distance”
USA - August 31 2022 Employers based outside of California can suffer knockout blows if they enter the Ring as employers in California and operate under the mistaken…
Michigan Court Stays Minimum Wage Increase and Sick Pay Change until February 2023
USA - August 16 2022 Pursuant to two voter initiatives, Michigan has a new minimum wage of $12 per hour, as well as a requirement that employees be provided up to 72…
Rhode Island Enacts Tip Protection Law
USA - July 8 2022 On June 28, 2022, Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee signed into law a comprehensive tip protection bill. The law, which took effect immediately upon…
U.S. Supreme Court’s Viking River Cruises Decision Is a Significant Victory for California Employers - at Least for Now
USA - June 16 2022 The U.S. Supreme Court’s June 15, 2022 decision in Viking River Cruises v. Moriana could have a tremendous impact upon pending and future litigation…
Chicago’s Minimum Wage Increase Set to Take Effect July 1, 2022
USA - June 13 2022 Chicago’s Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot and the Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection recently announced that the city’s minimum wage for…
Supreme Court Holds That Judges Can’t Invent Rules Governing Arbitration Waiver
USA - May 27 2022 Litigators who defend cases brought under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), particularly ‘collective actions” alleging wage-and-hour violations…
Ohio Enacts Changes to Overtime Exemption Laws and Class/Collective Action Procedures
USA - April 19 2022 Earlier this month, Governor Mike DeWine signed Senate Bill (SB) 47, which formally adopted Sections of the Portal-to-Portal Act (Portal Act)…
Time Is Money: A Quick Wage-Hour Tip on … Salaried Nonexempt Status
USA - February 25 2022 Neither fish nor fowl Salaried with overtime Brings pain and regret We don’t see a lot of wage and hour poetry these days, but if we did, it would…
A Very Simple Proposal to Tweak the FLSA to Benefit Both Employees and Employers
USA - January 20 2022 A number of years ago, I received a kind note around the holidays from my opposing counsel in a wage-hour class action, thanking me and my firm for…
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