Did you have a nice Thanksgiving holiday? How many of you gave thanks to that federal court in Texas for entering a nationwide injunction on the DOL overtime rules? Glass half-full (of old, stinky wage-and-hour milk). On the one hand, most of you got what you originally hoped for. That…
In a massive stroke of irony, a federal judge — one appointed by President Barack Obama — entered a nationwide injunction Tuesday to stop the implementation of the U.S. Department of Labor Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules that would have taken effect on December 1, 2016. In March 2014, President…
I’ll open this post with a haiku. Because, I feel like we could all use a haiku. President-Elect For HR, what will he do? Not a stinkin’ clue! …and any employment-law wonk who tells you otherwise, well, we saw how the pundits fared predicting the outcome of the presidential election.…
If I had a quarter for every time I heard someone criticize me for acting aloof at Starbucks by ordering a “medium” rather than a “grande” use the term “salaried-exempt,” I could play air hockey all day at Chuck-E-Cheese. Hmm, that sounded less creepy in my head. But, seeing it typed out and…
Yep, if you need me this morning, I’ll be at Fort Sam Houston, giving my spiel to U.S. Army South and some folks from Guantanamo Bay on social media and the workplace. How cool is that! (In a dorky lawyer kinda way). While that’s going down, let me catch you…
A few weeks ago, I blogged here about a federal agency — one that rhymes with EEOB — reaching a 7-figure settlement with its workers of alleged Fair Labor Standards Act overtime violations involving comp time. Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals issued an opinion, in which it…
Oh, yeah? Tell me more. Let me tell you about a guy. A guy in charge of inflatable rats and staged funerals. Daniel Krupinski graduated from Berkeley. Armed with a bachelor’s degree in international business, he went to work for the Laborers Eastern Region Organizing Fund (LEROF), the organizing arm of the Laborers International Union…
In other words, don’t take your foot off the gas pedal preparing for the pending U.S. Department of Labor’s Overtime Rules. Either that, or clutch your pearls a little tighter. 11th-Hour Efforts. Speaking at the SHRM Lehigh Valley #HRLegalTrends – Annual October Two Day Conference yesterday, Lisa Horn, SHRM’s Director of Congressional Affairs…
Sorry, I couldn’t find “A 1.5 Milli.” Lil Wayne will have to do. Last month, the U.S. Department of Labor, the federal agency tasked with enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act, agreed to pay $7 million dollars to settle wage-and-hour claims of many of its Washington, DC employees. Now, it seems that another…
…continue to prepare as if the U.S. Department of Labor’s new overtime rules will take effect on December 1, 2016, as scheduled. But what’s this lawsuit all about? Read on… Actually, it’s lawsuits, plural. That is, on Tuesday, 21 states filed this complaint against the DOL in a Texas federal…