Labor Days
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…
What You Need to Know About Recent Amendments to Illinois’s Equal Pay Act
As of January 1, 2016, Illinois’s Equal Pay Act (the “Act”) expanded to prohibit all employers, regardless of size, from paying unequal wages to men and women for doing the same or substantially similar work, except if…
The Fourth Bite at the Apple Uncovers a “Worm” for Duane Reade
Just last week, we offered a web training to our clients highlighting the continuing challenges faced by employers as they strive to comply with state and federal wage and hour laws. A June 9th decision by New York…
Are Higher Wages Coming To A City or County Near You? The Minimum Wage Legislation Trend As Told By California
From city to county to state, in the past three years, Californians have witnessed extensive propagation of minimum wage legislation at the local level. After staying silent for several years, the upper echelons of…
Deep Impact: New Overtime Rules Will Change Work, Not Overtime Pay
I'm going to say it: wage and hour laws can be a little boring. The vagaries of how to determine a fluctuating workweek, or the DOL's hyper-specific rules about how much an employer can subdivide time for purposes of…