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Understanding the New Overtime Tax Policies in the Big Beautiful Bill
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Constangy Clips Ep. 11 - Summer Interns and Short-Term Workers: 3 Tips for Managing Seasonal Hires
Navigating Contractor vs. Employee Classification
The Evolution of Equal Pay: Lessons From 9 to 5 — Hiring to Firing Podcast
Keeping Up with Exemption Threshold Regulations
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Employment Law Now VIII-154 - Court Invalidates DOL's 2024 Overtime Salary Threshold Increases
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The Burr Broadcast: FLSA Overtime Exemption
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VIDEO: Major Changes Coming for Employers
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The Burr Broadcast: New Independent Contractor Rule
DE Under 3: US DOL's WHD Published Its “Employee or Independent Contractor” Classification Final Rule
The Burr Broadcast: Proposed Expanded Overtime Rule
The U.S. Department of Labor has officially revived its Payroll Audit Independent Determination (PAID) program. Designed to help employers proactively resolve FLSA issues—and now, for the first time, certain FMLA...more
What you need to know: DOL will no longer seek liquidated (double) damages in pre-litigation FLSA settlements, limiting recovery to unpaid wages. Liquidated damages still apply in court cases, so employers remain at...more
The federal district court in Arizona recently confirmed that employers need a compelling reason to include reversionary clauses in wage-and-hour class action settlements. In Kostov v. Maricopa County Special Health Care...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has issued new internal guidance that significantly changes its approach to administrative settlements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In Field Assistance...more
The call or visit that no employer wants to receive: a Department of Labor representative asking to look at your payroll records. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) gives the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division...more
What is the right way to dismiss a case the parties have settled, and are FLSA cases different? Typically, when parties to a lawsuit settle a case, they merely alert the court of the settlement and then file a stipulation of...more
There have been a host of federal cases recently focusing on whether time spent waiting in security lines is compensable. Some have gone for the plaintiffs and others for the employer, as these cases are nuanced and...more
On January 24, 2020, the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals became the second federal appellate court to address whether notice of a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) may be sent to individuals who...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: At 852 pages, Seyfarth’s 15th Annual Workplace Class Action Litigation Report analyzes 1,453 rulings and is our most comprehensive Report ever. ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The monetary value of the top workplace class action settlements skyrocketed in 2017. Though all-time highs in this category were reached in each of the past three years, this year’s Report found that...more
Too much of a good thing can be bad – a maxim that some employers have historically ignored by requiring entire workforces, including rank-and-file employees, to submit to post-employment noncompete obligations as a condition...more
Viacom recently announced a settlement of $7.2 million dollars to end litigation by numerous unpaid interns for the Company’s television networks. In 2013, two former interns sued Viacom claiming that it violated the Fair...more
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), as construed by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in its extensive regulations promulgated under the Act, governs federal wage and hour law. Where an employer is an enterprise engaged in...more
A federal district court judge recently approved the final settlement of a lawsuit between a collective class of sales representatives and their employer regarding an alleged misclassification under the outside sales...more
As we have previously noted, employers are increasingly resorting to arbitration agreements, waivers and releases and other strategies in an attempt to limit liability in employment matters and reduce or eliminate the risk...more
With a fact pattern exemplifying the need for protection of employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the Eleventh Circuit has held that former employees may only settle their FLSA claim 1) under the supervision of...more
An employer's settlement of a Fair Labor Standards Act claim directly with a former employee rather than with the former employee's attorney was invalid and should not have been approved by the federal district court,...more
Last week, in Irizarry v. Catsimatidis, Docket No. 11-4035-cv (July 9, 2013), the Second Circuit held that Gristedes Foods CEO—and current NYC mayoral candidate—John Catsimatidis faces personal liability for settlement...more