We’re talking a lot of money honey. [Bravo, Eric. You couldn’t even make it one line without a stupid Gaga pun]. Pun free after the jump… * * * It may not be so glamorous working for Gaga. Stefani Germanotta, better known to you people (I call her Stefani)…
Monday is Labor Day, the day I plan to break the Guinness World Record for twerking and eating BLTs — they call it BLTwerking a tribute to the American Worker. If you give your employees the day off on Labor Day, a national holiday, do you have to pay them?…
It’s that time of year. You’re hiring summer interns and I’m shaving a spoked B into my playoff beard looking for an excuse to recycle my six keys to keeping unpaid internships from becoming a hot wage & hour mess. See what I just did there? Oh, you saw…
Today we have a guest blogger at The Employer Handbook. It’s Jesse Brar. Jesse is a Utah Employment Lawyer at Preston & Brar. (Want to guest blog at The Employer Handbook? Email me). Countless employees work hard on a daily basis in order to earn wages and salaries to support…
On Wednesday, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 223-204 to pass the Working Families Flexibility Act of 2013, which would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to permit employers to provide compensatory time off in lieu of monetary compensation for overtime hours worked. Presently, through the Federal Employees Flexible and…
** drops microphone, walks off stage ** Fine, I’ll play a quick encore. In a case decided yesterday, the U.S. Supreme Court in Genesis Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk (opinion here) held that if a plaintiff who brings a claim under the Fair Labor Standards Act on behalf of herself and…
This Sunday, Daylight Savings Time begins, as we push the clocks forward one hour at 2:00 AM on March 10, 2013. Did someone say Clocks? How does the time change affect the manner in which you pay hourly non-exempt employees who work the graveyard shift? I’ll let the Department…
Have you checked out DriveThruHR yet? DriveThruHR is the baby of Bryan Wempen and William Tincup, a half-hour radio show on which these two HR leaders, along with a guest, discuss the latest trends, thoughts and sentiment within the industry. Yesterday, I was on DriveThruHR, Human Resource’s #1 Daily Radio,…
With a title like that, this post could only arouse the interest of an employment lawyer. But, all of y’all should pay attention. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the period of time during which a covered employee must be paid begins when the worker engages in a principal activity. Putting…
No body shots here; just a swift federal court kick to Coyote Ugly’s social-media jewels. You get the ice. I’ll pour a double and serve up the details after the jump… * * * Stewart v. CUS Nashville, LLC is a Fair Labor Standards Act action in which a bunch…