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Timestamp: 2019-09-19 11:12:22
Document Index: 659449417

Matched Legal Cases: ['§ 201', '§ 510', '§ 201', '§ 510', '§ 201', '§ 510', '§ 207']

Posted on 2 Jul 2015 by Ashley Kasarjian
For the first time in over a decade, the Department of Labor proposed updates today to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) white collar overtime regulations. These changes will impact businesses throughout the United States . The... Read More
Tags: overtime pay , salaried employees , wage and hour laws , exempt employees
Posted on 21 Sep 2012 by Abbey Spanier
We previously blogged about the split among the Circuit courts and state court decisions regarding whether pharmaceutical sales representatives are outside sales employees and therefore exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards... Read More
Tags: overtime pay , exemption , pharmaceutical reps , Christopher v. Smithkline Beecham
Posted on 11 Aug 2015 by Fisher & Phillips LLP
by John E. Thompson Nearly 1,600 comments have already been posted in response to the U.S. Labor Department's proposals regarding the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(1) exemptions. Not surprisingly, there is great concern about... Read More
Tags: overtime pay , FLSA actions , salaried employees , wage and hour laws , exempt employees
Posted on 15 Apr 2013 by The Employment Law Group
A federal investigation has determined that Upper Crust, a bankrupt gourmet pizza chain, owes former employees about $850,000 in back wages and damages. In 2009, the Department of Labor investigated Upper Crust's refusal to pay its workers overtime... Read More
Tags: overtime pay , wage & hour laws
Posted on 11 Sep 2015 by David S. Rich
On July 23, 2015, in Lola v. Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP , No. 14-3845 (2d Cir. July 23, 2015) , the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, reversing the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York’s order dismissing... Read More
Tags: New York , overtime pay , wage and hour laws , attorneys
Posted on 7 Jul 2015 by Williams Mullen
by Michael B. Steele The speculation is over -- on June 30, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) regarding overtime exemptions, after several missed release dates. The NPRM is in response... Read More
Blog Post: Wages & Hours: Law and Practice
Blog Post: Are My Company’s Workers In New York Employees Or Independent Contractors For Purposes Of Overtime Pay And The Minimum Wage?
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219 (the "FLSA"), and its implementing regulations, 29 C.F.R. § 510 et seq. , mandate that most employees in the United States be paid at least the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for all hours...
Blog Post: What Kinds Of Extra Compensation Offset Overtime Pay In New York?
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219 (the "FLSA"), and its corresponding regulations, 29 C.F.R. § 510 et seq. , require that most employees in the U.S. be paid not less than the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour for all hours...
Blog Post: Foley & Lardner Labor and Employment Law Weekly Update (Week of July 18, 2011)
Blog Post: New Jersey Adopts The Federal Regulations Concerning Exemptions From Overtime Pay Laws
On September 6, 2011, the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development repealed its existing rules governing exemptions from overtime pay requirements for executive, administrative, professional and outside sales employees, and instead adopted by reference the analogous regulations issued...
Blog Post: Just Because You Are Thankful You Have a Job, Don’t Let Your Employer Steal from You
More and more in this increasingly competitive retail world, companies are requiring their employees to work long shifts, overnight shift, and holidays. This year, some retailers like Macy's, Toys 'R Us, Wal-Mart and Target are getting a jump on Black Friday by opening at midnight or earlier...
Blog Post: When Your Employee Works OT on the QT, Must You Pay It?
That was the question that the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals faced in an opinion released yesterday. If you don't know, then you don't pay. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), among other things, establishes minimum wage and overtime pay standards affecting employees in the private...
Blog Post: Proposed Federal Rules Would Require Third-Party Employers Of Domestic Workers To Pay Overtime Compensation
Proposed Rules Would Increase Overtime Pay For Live-In Domestic Workers in New York State The federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201-219 (the "FLSA"), and its implementing regulations, 29 C.F.R. §§ 510 et seq. , mandate that most workers in the U.S....
Blog Post: Southern District of New York Awards Emotional Distress Damages of $500,000 To Domestic Worker In Unpaid Overtime Case
In March 2012, in Gurung v. Malhotra , 10 Civ. 5086 (S.D.N.Y. Mar. 16, 2012) , the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York (Marrero, J.) awarded, to a 22-year-old domestic worker, damages of $1,458,335 against the maid's former employers - an Indian diplomat and her husband...
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Blog Post: U.S. Supreme Court Resolves Split Among the Circuit Courts Regarding Whether Pharmaceutical Sales Representatives Are Entitled to Overtime
We previously blogged about the split among the Circuit courts and state court decisions regarding whether pharmaceutical sales representatives are outside sales employees and therefore exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). The Second Circuit held that...
Blog Post: Overtime Work Is Not A By-The-Job Matter
by John E. Thompson Recent reports have described more than one scenario in which an employer violated the federal Fair Labor Standards Act because the employer failed to recognize that non-exempt employees' hours worked over 40 were overtime ones. The employees had performed their work in...
Blog Post: Commissioned Sales People in Retail Establishments Entitled to Overtime
by Stephanie Amin-Giwner Generally under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") an employer must pay its employees overtime compensation of one and one-half times the employee's regular rate of pay for hours worked in excess of forty hours per week. 29 U.S.C. § 207(a)(1). This...
Blog Post: We Love Our Phones, but Should Employees Be Paid for Using Them Off-Duty?
True confession time. I have a Pavlovian response to the new message chime on my iPhone. I can't help myself. When my phone beeps, I reach for it. I have no choice. I'm an exempt employee, which means that I am paid a weekly salary, with no eligibility for overtime, regardless of how many...
Blog Post: Department of Labor Determines Upper Crust Pizza Owes Employees $850,000 in Unpaid Wages and Overtime
A federal investigation has determined that Upper Crust, a bankrupt gourmet pizza chain, owes former employees about $850,000 in back wages and damages. In 2009, the Department of Labor investigated Upper Crust's refusal to pay its workers overtime and ordered the company to pay $350,000 in unpaid...
Blog Post: Department of Labor Expands Wage and Hour Laws to Home Care Workers
Blog Post: 6th Circuit Rules in Favor of Nonprofit on Discrimination Claim Brought by Volunteers
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