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OSHA held its public rulemaking hearing on the proposed Heat Injury and Illness Prevention in Outdoor and Indoor Work Settings standard from June 16 through July 2, 2025. Below is a summary of the hearing and a brief...more
Fair Labor Standards Act - The FLSA establishes minimum wage, overtime pay, and payday standards, in addition to recordkeeping obligations and other workplace mandates. Importantly, the FLSA only places requirements on...more
Overview As previously discussed here, pursuant to Executive Order 14026 signed by President Biden on April 27, 2021, the Department of Labor ("DOL" or "Department") recently published a notice of proposed rulemaking titled...more
Q: What do I need to know about the proposed federal rule on independent contractor classification? ...more
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has issued a proposed rule addressing conciliation based on the various laws it enforces, including Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Americans with Disabilities...more
Whether a worker is an employee covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) (and potentially entitled to overtime pay or benefits) or an independent contractor who is not covered has been the center of an ongoing legal...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on Sept. 22, 2020, proposed new regulations designed to codify criteria to identify independent workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Independent contractors are not employees...more
While the proposed rule retains the “economic realities test,” it consolidates the existing factors used to guide analysis of independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act and focuses on two “core factors.”...more
As we reported here, on April 1, 2020, the NLRB published its final rule making three amendments to its rules and regulations governing union elections (relating to the Board’s blocking charge policy; timing and notice...more
If January's minimum wage, tip, and overtime developments forecast what employers should expect throughout the remainder of the year, it could be a challenging 2020....more
In short, the petitioners asked for a rule that non-competes are an unfair method of competition that is illegal per se under Section 5(a) of the Federal Trade Commission Act. Further, they asked that any employer presenting,...more
On 9 January 2020 the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) held a public workshop in Washington, D.C. to assess whether it should "promulgate a Commission Rule that would restrict the use of non-compete clauses in employer-employee...more
We remember when legislative and regulatory developments rarely occurred in December, but those days are behind us. A Reminder About New Year's Eve & New Year's Day Rate Increases: Many minimum wage, tipped and exempt...more
Employers who compensate non-exempt employees based on the “fluctuating work week” method, take note. Last month, the Department of Labor issued a proposed rule that would permit employers to supplement the salaries of such...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division issued a proposed rule on the fluctuating workweek method of pay. The proposal continues a regulatory saga started in 2008, and clarifies that payments in...more
In June 2018 the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) issued a proposed rule to substantially increase the salary threshold to qualify as an exempt Executive, Administrative and Professional (EAP) employee...more
On October 8, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) proposed changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations governing the wages of tipped employees, specifically, tip credits and tip pools....more
Employers in the hospitality and restaurant industry are poised for celebration: the Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed eliminating a rule that requires tracking the time tipped employees devote to non-tip producing...more
On Monday, October 7, 2019, the Department of Labor (DOL) proposed a new 80/20 rule and tip pooling regulation. First, the proposed regulation, if finalized, will permit employers to take a tip credit regardless of the...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division announced its long-awaited proposed rule related to the FLSA’s tip provisions. The rule would implement statutory changes passed in March 2018; it also would...more
The National Labor Relations Board recently issued a 113-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking as the first of a planned series of revisions to its representation procedures under Section 9 of the National Labor Relations Act. ...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: The NLRB recently published a Notice of Proposed Rule Making regarding three proposed amendments to its current rules and regulations for union elections. These amendments consist of: (1) a change from the...more
On August 12, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making, which seeks to amend the NLRB’s current regulations regarding union election procedures. The proposed rules are the first...more