Month: September 2015
- DOL News
Federal Contractor Minimum Wage to Increase for 2016
The President’s Executive Order 13658, released in October 2014, which set a minimum wage for certain federal contractor employees requires…
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DOL Promoting Timesheet App again on Official Blog
The DOL promoted its Timesheet app again in a blog post yesterday, which it cross-posted to DigitalGov (and why DigitalGov.Gov, instead of…
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Fifth Circuit’s FLSA Meal Break Decision Exposes Limit of Supreme Court’s Integrity Staffing Decision
Yesterday, I profiled Naylor v. Securiguard, a Fifth Circuit decision with a seemingly unique fact pattern (security guards on a…
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Travel-shortened meal breaks may be compensable under FLSA says Fifth Circuit
It’s more cult classic than a summer blockbuster, but one of my favorite movies is 2000’s “O Brother, Where Art Thou?” starring…
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Here’s How the Possible Federal Government Shutdown Could Impact Employers
For the umpteenth time in the past several years, Congress is once again on the brink of a threatened shutdown…
Read More » Missouri Battles Over Minimum Wage, Right to Work Rage On
As I’ve been covering on Twitter, Missouri has been roiled lately with state and local battles over the minimum wage…
Read More »Protecting the Sharing Economy: Creating an FLSA Dependent Contractor Status
Last week, I answered a question about whether the FLSA is outdated in the affirmative. For the reasons I discussed…
Read More »Do Sharing Economy Cases Show that the FLSA is Outdated? Yes!
Over at the Workplace Prof Blog, Professor Sachin Pandya (Connecticut) asks whether sharing economy cases show that employment laws–in particular the…
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Final Push Puts DOL FLSA Regulation Comments over 264,000
As employers anxiously await the final regulations codifying changes to the FLSA white collar exemptions, and the salary level in…
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Regulation Recap: The DOL’s Proposed FLSA Regulations, and What’s Next
With the comment period now officially closed, I wanted to summarize the Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division’s (WHD) proposal to…
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