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Quietly, the DOL jacks up penalties for willful overtime and minimum wage violations.
How was your Fourth of July weekend?
Did you knock your 5-year-old off of her scooter in the middle of Main Street to the shocked and judging, “Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhs….” of spectators on both sides of the street with smartphones up capturing all of the parade action for posterity?
***checks YouTube again***
Well, neither did I.
How much time is there left for “Just In Time” scheduling? Maybe, not much.
Late last week, the District of Columbia advanced a bill aimed at ending “just in time” scheduling, where employers adjust employee work schedules for hourly workers — often within 24 hours or less — based on consumer demand.
Republicans toss up a Hail Mary to stop the new DOL overtime rules
On December 1, 2016, the new Department of Labor overtime rules will take effect. Yesterday, Senate labor committee Chairman Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn.) and Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee chairman Ron Johnson (R-Wisc.) announced (here) new legislation under the Congressional Review Act to to stop the overtime rules dead in their tracks.
You ever see that scene in Minions where the caveman tries to stop a bear with a flyswatter?
Keep preparing for the new overtime rules.
Do you force employees to arbitrate class-action claims? Then, you should read this…
As I think about all of the agreements with arbitration provisions that I’ve drafted for clients over the years.
***wipes brow, tugs collar, clutches pearls***
The new DOL overtime rules are here. You’ve got HR questions? I have answers!
Last night, the U.S. Department of Labor published its final rule updating the Fair Labor Standards Act overtime regulations. Unless you’ve been living under a rock, if you dabble in human resources, you’ve heard a thing or two about these changes, which the White House has touted as automatically extending overtime pay protections to over 4 million workers within the first year.
What are the changes and how will they impact your workplace?
Big Business tries to slow DOL’s roll on it’s new overtime rules. Don’t hold your breath…
Rather than jump from my wage and hour soapbox — the hella-best soapbox in town — I’m going to step down slowly.
For you, my HR brothers and sisters, I need to testify a bit longer.
If this FLSA mess doesn’t have you calling your employment lawyer, not sure what will.
The U.S. Department of Labor announced on Monday that “a human resources outsource provider will pay $1 million in back overtime wages and damages combined to hundreds of employees after a U.S. Department of Labor investigation that found widespread Fair Labor Standards Act violations.”
So what did a human resources provider do wrong?
The proposed DOL overtime rules are a walk in the park compared to this new “wage theft prevention” bill
Businesses will be like…
That’s because, earlier this month, Senator Patty Murray (D-WA), top Democrat on the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH), and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), introduced the Wage Theft Prevention and Wage Recovery Act. According to this HELP press release, this new bill would put a lot of additional sharp fangs into the Fair Labor Standards Act.