Labor Days
Happy New Year and Be Aware of New NY State Salary Thresholds
NEW EXEMPT SALARY THRESHOLD – As the ball is dropping in Times Square, wage and hour regulations are changing for employers in New York. The New York Department of Labor has made it clear that on December 31, 2016, at…
The DOL Will Appeal Injunction Suspending Regulations Raising the White Collar Salary Minimums
As we continue to follow the progress of the injunction suspending the Department of Labor’s regulations raising the salary minimums for the ‘white collar exemption’, yesterday the DOL informed a Texas federal court…
Are the DOL Regulations Dead, or Just on Life Support?
As you finish your Thanksgiving preparations the last thing you needed was a major legal development in the area of Employment law – but we had one yesterday. On November 22, Judge Amos Mazzant, sitting in the Eastern…
I’m Not Persuaded: The DOL’s New “Persuader” Rule Close to Implementation
Law firms are often retained by employers facing the fast-paced, distracting, emotionally charged experience of unionization efforts. Part of the union organizing process is legal in nature, and part feels more like…