Overtime

The most fun you can have in a week with wage and hour compliance!!!

July 2, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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What’s better than a three-part series on wage-and-hour compliance? (Other than an apple cider tour with Ned Flanders.)

Don’t answer that question! Continue reading

A new bill in Congress would mute the Department of Labor’s proposed overtime rule changes

June 14, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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“Uh, dude. It’s ‘moot,’ not ‘mute.’ You did go to law school, right?” Continue reading

It sure sounds like several state AGs are going to sue to block the DOL’s proposed overtime rules.

June 5, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Well, this just got interesting. Continue reading

The largest HR organization in the world ❤’s the DOL’s proposed overtime rules. Mostly.

May 24, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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The Society for Human Resource Management has commented on the United States Department of Labor‘s proposed changes to the current overtime rules.

Spoiler alert: SHRM likes ’em. Continue reading

🚨🚨DOL plans to clarify how companies calculate overtime for employees🚨🚨

March 29, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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I remember the time that the U.S. Department of Labor showed up unannounced to the Bloggerdome.

It was yesterday. And, I’m pretty sure that the five-year-old ratted me out for paying my other three kids in Cheerios for installing a marble driveway. The driveway was a birthday gift I gave to myself.

(I turn 43 today.)

But, lesson learned. And even though this never really happened, I feel your pain, friends. I know how difficult it can be to comply with wage and hour laws. Continue reading

BREAKING-ish, sorta, not really. Yeah, you knew this was coming. The DOL officially announces overtime changes.

March 8, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Before all the Facebook creepiness, pukey-poopy emojis, and gushing over my awesome law firm, I foreshadowed some changes from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules.

Yesterday, the DOL put a ring on it and made it official. Continue reading

New overtime rules are coming (yes, really this time!). Here are eight things employers need to know to prepare.

March 4, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Remember that f**king fire drill?

Back in 2016, the United States Department of Labor proposed a rule that would have made millions of workers eligible to earn overtime for the first time by raising the salary-level that exempts certain individuals from overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

And employers panicked. Many businesses converted salaried employees to hourly. Others got raises. Some received both. It was a mess. The only happy people were the employment lawyers.

But, then a federal judge in Texas entered a nationwide injunction against the proposed DOL rule, and everything went away, except those raises and pay changes that you could exactly stuff back into the tube of toothpaste.

Welcome to Round Two

New $15 minimum wage bill will be introduced in the Senate today.

January 16, 2019 | by Eric B. Meyer

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For nearly ten years, from September 1, 1997 through July 23, 2007, the federal minimum wage was $5.15 per hour. Three times in the following two years, the minimum wage rose, settling in at $7.25 per hour on July 24, 2009. The minimum wage has remained $7.25 since then.

That might change soon. Continue reading

Sorry, Busta Rhymes. You don’t get a “celebrity exception” for settling your wage-and-hour claim

May 21, 2018 | by Eric B. Meyer

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Generally, if a wage and hour dispute arises in the workplace, the parties need approval from either the U.S. Department of Labor or a federal court to resolve claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

When parties agree to resolve these claims as part of litigation, two things often happen:

A court must approve the settlement; and
The settlement agreement becomes public; i.e., no confidentiality.

Recently, Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr. and the other parties to an FLSA action requested that a New York federal court relax the publicity rules by creating a “celebrity exception.”

Oh, you don’t know Trevor Tahiem Smith, Jr.?

That’s Busta Rhymes!