Employment & Labor Law | Dickinson Law

Attorney Bryan O’Neill Selected for IDCA Rising Star Award

Posted on 08/23/2019 at 09:39 AM by The Newsroom

Categories: Dickinson Law News, Employment & Labor Law, Litigation & Trial Law

Tagged As: employment attorney, litigation, Iowa Defense Counsel Association, IDCA, civil litigation, civil litigation

Dickinson Law is pleased to announced that attorney Bryan O’Neill has been chosen to receive the 2019 Rising Star...

After 55 years, DOL-WHD Reinterprets Compensability of Sleep Time for Truck Drivers

Posted on 08/07/2019 at 02:27 PM by Mike Staebell

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Mike Staebell, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: Department of Labor, DOL, Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA, Iowa Employment & Labor Law, Iowa Wage & Hour Watch

On July 22, 2019, DOL’s Wage and Hour Division issued an opinion letter (FLSA2019-10) on whether an employee&rsquo...

Three Things Affirmative Action Employers Can Learn from OFCCP v. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Baltimore

Posted on 07/30/2019 at 01:22 PM by Russell Samson

Categories: Dickinson Law News, Employment & Labor Law

Tagged As: affirmative action, Department of Labor, employment law, Enterprise Rent-A-Car, Office of Federal Contracts Compliance Programs

The July 17, 2019, Recommended Decision and Order of a Department of Labor Administrative Law Judge in OFCCP v. Enterpri...

Exposure in a Directly Observed Drug Specimen Collection for DOT Testing

Posted on 05/29/2019 at 03:23 PM by Russell Samson

Categories: Business Law, Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: alcohol testing, DOT, drug testing, Iowa Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson Employment & Labor Law

The headline of the article read, “JetBlue Made Worker Expose Breasts For Drug Test, Says Suit.” ...

Tipped Employees and the FLSA: DOL Offers Welcome Guidance

Posted on 05/29/2019 at 09:14 AM by Mike Staebell

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Mike Staebell, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: Department of Labor, DOL, Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA, Iowa employers, Iowa Employment & Labor Law, Iowa Wage & Hour Watch, Tip Regulations, WHD

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act’s tip credit rules, employers can pay a base hourly wage as low as $2.13/hour t...

Bank to Customer: We’re Not Your Insurance Company

Posted on 05/22/2019 at 04:04 PM by John Lande

Categories: Banking Law, Cybersecurity Law, Employment & Labor Law, John Lande

Tagged As: Iowa banking law, Iowa cybersecurity law, Iowa Employment & Labor Law, UCC, Uniform Commercial Code

Cybersecurity incidents routinely grab headlines, and for good reason. These incidents often lead to exposure of large v...

Dickinson attorneys recognized by Chambers USA as among best in Iowa

Posted on 04/26/2019 at 11:49 AM by The Newsroom

Categories: Banking Law, Ben Bruner, Commercial Litigation, David Repp, Dickinson Law News, Employment & Labor Law, Howard Hagen, Jeff Krausman, Jill Jensen-Welch, John Lande, Melissa Schilling, Mollie Pawlosky, Paul Tyler, Real Estate & Land Use, Rick Malm, Russ Samson

Tagged As: Iowa banking law, Iowa Corporate/M&A Law, Iowa Employment & Labor Law, Iowa Litigation Law, Iowa Real Estate & Land Use

Chambers USA has given the Dickinson Law Firm five high rankings for practice areas in Iowa. Dickinson was re...

DOL Proposes Revisions to Joint Employer Regulations

Posted on 04/02/2019 at 10:25 AM by Mike Staebell

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: DOL, FLSA, joint employment, Mike Staebell, notice of proposed rulemaking, regulations

On April 1, 2019, the Department of Labor announced a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) for Part 791 of Title 29 of...

DOL Announces Proposed Rule to amend the FLSA’s Regular Rate Provisions

Posted on 03/29/2019 at 09:26 AM by Mike Staebell

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: DOL, Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA, Mike Staebell, Regular Rate

On March 28, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to clarify and amend the...

"Reasonable Accommodation" for Marijuana Use - Part two: State Law Approaches to Workplace Safety Versus Individual Rights to Use

Posted on 03/22/2019 at 10:28 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Business Law, Employment & Labor Law, Russ Samson

Tagged As: Canada, medical cannabis, medical marijuana, reasonable accommodation, Russ Samson Employment & Labor Law

Part 1 of this blog post, discussed a decision of a Canadian provincial supreme court affirming an arbitrator’s de...

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