For-profit organizations have new guidelines to follow when determining whether they must pay interns. On January 5, 2018, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new test for determining whether interns must be paid or...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new minimum salary rule for the “white collar” exemption may not take effect on December 1, 2016, as scheduled. On November 22, U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant of the Eastern...more
As we predicted last week in “Release of Final DOL Exempt Employee Salary Rule Likely Imminent,” on May 18, 2016, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its final rule increasing the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA)...more
Last September, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued a proposed rule increasing the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum weekly salary rate for exempt employees to $970 a week, a great increase from the current $455 per week...more