By AgnosticPreachersKid – Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link The U.S. Department of Labor could have rested on its overtime-rule laurels in 2020. Instead, the DOL has wasted little time releasing three new opinion letters in 2020. I’ll break them down for you below. FLSA2020-1: Addressing calculating overtime pay for a…
By Augustus Binu, CC BY-SA 3.0, Link Because I’m a lawyer, I’ll say it depends. Except, I won’t charge you 0.1 hours of my time to say it. Instead, I encourage you to go to SHRM’s website and read this article from Roy Maurer. Roy addresses a decision by the…
Number55 [CC BY]A Toronto man who worked for the same company for six years no longer works there. All because of a tweet and a bottle of barbecue sauce. Multiple news outlets are reporting that an employee who received a $5.99 bottle of barbecue sauce from his employer as a…
Image by Clker-Free-Vector-Images from Pixabay Last Summer, the National Labor Relations Board asked the public to help it decide when employees should be allowed to make racist or sexist comments at work. I would have assumed that the answer is, you know, “never.” But, then again, I don’t make the…
Image by kalhh from Pixabay “Pardon me. But would you happen to have any Grey Poupon?” “But, of course.” That’s the conversation I imagine having with most of you based on the results of yesterday’s poll where I asked readers what your company has done to prepare for the new…
Image Credit: Pexels.com (https://www.pexels.com/photo/2018-alarm-clock-balance-business-612051/) Happy New Year, everyone. Or, as we employment law nerds say, ‘Day 2’ of the new overtime rule today. (Actually, no one says that except for this nerd.) As of January 1, 2020, a salaried employee must make at least $684 per week (equivalent to $35,568 per…
Image by mohamed Hassan from Pixabay 2019 was a busy year for HR compliance. That’s a true statement even if we forget about all that went down in New Jersey. Among other things, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a final rule to make 1.3 million American workers eligible for overtime…
Image by StockSnap from Pixabay Practicing employment law in the State of New Jersey is both a blessing and a curse. I’ll clarify that. It’s great for me because New Jersey passes new employment laws faster than Joey Chestnut eats Nathan’s Hot Dogs on the Fourth of July. So, rather…
By POV – Impawards, Link John McClain’s classic line from another classic Christmas movie, Die Hard 2, was the first thing that came to my mind after a story I read last week. According to multiple reports, among them, this one from Evan Simko-Bednarski and Anna Sturla reporting at CNN,…
By Alexrk – Own work, CC BY 3.0, Link Water is wet. Grass is green. And, yes, New Jersey remains the employee-rights capital of the East. Actually, since we’re talking about New Jersey, I really should have said ‘wooder’ is wet for the South Jersey folks and ‘wourder’ is wet…