Image Credit: Photofunia.com Who is still breathing a sigh of relief that the proposed U.S. Department of Labor overtime rules never took effect? Not so fast Pennsylvania employers. You may want to take a deep breath and start clutching your pearls. New Overtime Rules in PA On Wednesday, Pennsylvania Governor…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor did more for employers than just revamp its internship test. It re-issued a slew of opinion letters to help employers with sticky wage-and-hour issues. I’ve highlighted a few of the more notable ones below. [Fair warning: We get kinda wonky by…
Image Credit: Photofunia.com On Friday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced here that it was changing its test for whether a company needs to pay its interns. Well, let’s take a step back. The Fair Labor Standards Act is a federal law that requires covered employers to pay non-exempt employees at…
I had one date circled — one date between now and the end of the year. Later this week, on November 17, Netflix releases Marvel’s The Punisher. If you’ve dorked out gotten culture with any of The Defenders series, then, like me, you’ve been chomping at the bit for this release.…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/en/wave-water-sea-tsunami-giant-wave-11061/) And here you thought you were so smart by getting all of your employees to agree to class-action waivers and binding arbitration of all employment-related claims. Maybe not so much. Death by a thousand paper cuts. Yesterday, I read this article from Jon Steingart at Bloomberg Law’s…
Yep, Harry Potter. On Friday, the Third Circuit of Appeals issued a precedential Fair Labor Standards Act opinion. The issue was whether the FLSA requires employers to compensate employees for breaks of 20 minutes or less after they log off their computers and are free from any work duties. I…
If an employer violates the Fair Labor Standards Act, like by not paying overtime, the plaintiff(s) can generally recover two years of unpaid overtime for the two years preceding the lawsuit. Those plaintiffs may also recover liquidated damages equal to the unpaid overtime. So, if an employer owes $100 in…
Yesterday, a Texas federal judge killed ’em dead. Now, I could go on for a few hundred words and re-explain the entire history of the overtime rules. But, it’s five o’clock somewhere and Kate Tornone did all of the heavy lifting already in this article for HRDive.com. So, put down your adult…
A few years back, some progressive (?) restaurants around the country made headlines by paying their waitstaff more than minimum wage and putting the kibosh on customer tips. This broke with the traditional way of paying customarily-tipped employees in scratch offs and iced animal crackers. That is, most employers would pay the minimum-required…
I see your lawsuit and raise you a contempt motion! (It sounded baller in my head. But, seeing it in print, not so much.) Although that .gif… Injunction? What injunction? Remember a few months ago when I blogged about a class-action lawsuit filed in a New Jersey federal court. That’s…