The Thirty-Two Hour Workweek Act, introduced this week in Congress, is exactly what you think it is The same week that the U.S. Department of Labor’s rules on analyzing and determining who is an employee or independent...
The Employer Handbook Friday Zoom Happy Hour Returns on Friday, March 8 at Noon ET The U.S. Department of Labor rules on analyzing and determining who is an employee or independent contractor under the...
Instead of hiring a lawyer, a business owner ordered to pay wages used AI to prepare his appeal. It was a giant clusterf**k! A multi-year dispute over unpaid wages went from bad to a whole lot worse for a Midwest business owner...
Should Mrs. Doubtfire have been paid overtime? It’s not like I woke up in a cold sweat, fixated on this obscure bit of Fair Labor Standards...
Folks, we have our first lawsuit to try to KO the DOL’s new independent contractor rule It took less than a week for a group of freelance writers and editors to file this federal court...
Let’s revisit how to handle FMLA and FLSA for a snow day office closure. Back in the day, the mere promise of Cheerios and chocolate milk was all it took to dupe my...
Join me on Wednesday, January 17, at 1 PM for a webinar on the new DOL Independent Contractor Rules Last week, the U.S. Department of Labor finalized its rules on how to analyze and determine who is an employee or...
Today’s free “wage and hour 101” post is the silver lining to an employer’s $1.6M screw-up The Fair Labor Standards Act can be a veritable legal liability minefield for the uninitiated. Just ask several of...
Here are five things for employers to know about the DOL’s new independent contractor rule Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor finalized its rules on how to analyze and determine who is an employee...
New employment laws may not just expose employers to liability; they may double it! Among the top employment issues that companies will need to navigate in 2024 is enforcing laws that have more...
281,870 reasons not to attempt a kickback scheme to avoid paying overtime It’s not often that I attempt to locate images for blog posts using ‘kickback’ as a search term. But...