Blog posts in category Employment & Labor Law

Trump Signs Families First Coronavirus Response Act: How It Will Impact Employers*

Posted on 03/19/2020 at 11:15 AM by Jill Jensen-Welch

Categories: Employment & Labor Law

Tagged As: Coronavirus, COVID-19, employment law, Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Family Medical and Leave Act

Trump Signs Families First Coronavirus Response Act: How It Will Impact Employers*

* With Contributions by Attorney Melissa Schilling   After the U.S. House of Representatives made a number of chan...

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Update: House Makes Significant Changes to Families First Coronavirus Response Act

Posted on 03/17/2020 at 12:47 PM by Melissa Schilling

Categories: Employment & Labor Law

Tagged As: Coronavirus, COVID-19, employment law, Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Family Medical Leave Act, paid sick leave

Update: House Makes Significant Changes to Families First Coronavirus Response Act

On Monday, March 16, 2020, the House passed major changes to the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, before the bil...

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House Passes Families First Coronavirus Response Act: How It Will Impact Employers

Posted on 03/16/2020 at 08:53 AM by Melissa Schilling

Categories: Employment & Labor Law

Tagged As: Coronavirus, COVID-19, employment law, Families First Coronavirus Response Act, Family Medical and Leave Act, paid sick leave

House Passes Families First Coronavirus Response Act: How It Will Impact Employers

On Saturday, March 14, 2020, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the “Families First Coronavirus Response Act...

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The New FLSA White Collar Exemption Salary Threshold – Are You Ready for January 1?

Posted on 12/06/2019 at 02:03 PM by Mike Staebell

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: DOL, employment law, FLSA, white collar exemption regulation, White Collar FSLA Exemptions

The New FLSA White Collar Exemption Salary Threshold – Are You Ready for January 1?

It seems like we’ve discussed this subject for years. It was May of 2016 when the Obama DOL issued final regulatio...

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DOL’s "Fluctuating Workweek" Method of Pay Explained - Part 2

Posted on 11/11/2019 at 01:54 PM by Mike Staebell

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: 2011 "clean-up regulations", DOL Wage and Hour Division, non-exempt employees , Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NRPM)

DOL’s "Fluctuating Workweek" Method of Pay Explained - Part 2

Our previous Wage and Hour Watch post summarized DOL’s recent Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the FLSA fluctuatin...

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DOL Proposes New FLSA Rule on the “Fluctuating Workweek” Method of Paying Non-Exempt Salaried Employees - Part 1

Posted on 11/08/2019 at 04:41 PM by Mike Staebell

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: 2011 "clean-up regulations", DOL Wage and Hour Division, non-exempt employees , Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NRPM)

DOL Proposes New FLSA Rule on the “Fluctuating Workweek” Method of Paying Non-Exempt Salaried Employees - Part 1

On November 5, USDOL’s Wage and Hour Division issued a press release with the enticing title, “U.S. Departme...

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DOL Issues Proposed Rule for Tipped Employees

Posted on 10/18/2019 at 11:28 AM by Mike Staebell

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

Tagged As: DOL, DOL Wage and Hour Division, employer, FLSA, minimum wage, tipped employees, tip credit, CAA, O*NET

DOL Issues Proposed Rule for Tipped Employees

Working to clarify the jumbled mess of FLSA tipped worker regulations, on October 8, 2019, the Department of Labor annou...

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DOL Announces Results of the Payroll Audit Determination Program (PAID)

Posted on 10/08/2019 at 12:17 PM by Mike Staebell

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

Tagged As: DOL, DOL Wage and Hour Division, FLSA, labor and employment, PAID, WHD

DOL Announces Results of the Payroll Audit Determination Program (PAID)

In a press release dated September 26, 2019, the DOL Wage and Hour Division announced that since implementing its PAID P...

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At Last: DOL Announces Final Rule on Salary Threshold for White Collar FLSA Exemptions

Posted on 09/26/2019 at 10:12 AM by Mike Staebell

Categories: Employment & Labor Law, Wage & Hour Watch

Tagged As: DOL, FSLA Exemptions, White Collar FSLA Exemptions

At Last: DOL Announces Final Rule on Salary Threshold for White Collar FLSA Exemptions

On Tuesday September 24, 2019, the DOL announced its latest attempt to raise the minimum salary required for application...

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Democratic Presidential Campaigns as "Employers"

Posted on 09/19/2019 at 11:32 AM by Russell Samson

Categories: Employment & Labor Law

Tagged As: AFL-CIO, employment attorney, employment law, labor & employment, labor negotiations , Labor Unions, National Labor Relations Board, Presidential campaigns, presidential campaigns, Presidential campaigns as employers , Teamsters, The Hill, The Washington Post

Democratic Presidential Campaigns as "Employers"

Speaking at the Iowa Federation of Labor’s annual convention in mid-August, 2019, AFL-CIO President Richard T...

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