Exempt-Employees, Public Employees

Latest Developments from the Connecticut General Assembly: The Labor and Public Employees Committee Has Spoken (Part Three)

Pullman & Comley - Labor, Employment and... on 5/2/2025

We have written about the General Assembly’s Labor and Public Employees Committee’s final flurry of activity approving and advancing bills out of committee. ...more

Three New DOL Opinion Letters Address Wage and Hour Issues and FMLA Eligibility

Steptoe & Johnson PLLC on 1/16/2020

On January 7, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor published three new opinion letters – two that address compliance under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) and one that addresses compliance under the Family Medical Leave...more

The DOL Starts 2020 With a Bevy of Opinion Letters

Snell & Wilmer on 1/14/2020

Not sitting on its laurels, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has already issued three new opinion letters to begin the year. Two deal with issues under the FLSA and a third addresses issues under the FMLA....more

U.S. Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Two Additional Employment Cases This Term

Littler on 9/29/2017

On September 28, 2017, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in two cases with labor and employment implications. - In the first case, Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31...more

Commonwealth Court Expands the Scope of Good Samaritan Amendment to the Workers’ Compensation Act

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 8/27/2015

In 2003, the Pennsylvania General Assembly amended Section 601 of the Workers’ Compensation Act to expand the definition of the word “employee” to include employees who, while in the course and scope of their employment,...more

Emergency Legislation to Amend California’s Paid Sick Leave Requirements Signed by Governor, Effective Immediately

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/15/2015

Last year, the California Legislature enacted A.B. 1522, the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 (“Act”), which amended California Labor Code Section 245.5 to provide paid sick days to most California employees,...more