Minimum Wage, Department of Labor (DOL), New Regulations

Leadership Updates and a New Opinion Letter Program Confirm the U.S. Department of Labor’s Increased Focus on Compliance...

Conn Maciel Carey LLP on 6/11/2025

The U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) recently named several political appointments to its Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”). Employers know WHD is an entity with vast enforcement authority, including over minimum wage and...more

DOL Announces Abandonment of Independent Contractor Rule

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 5/9/2025

In 2024, the Department of Labor adopted regulations limiting the definition of independent contractors exempt from the provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime and minimum wage requirements....more

Minimum Wage Increase for Federal Government Contractors Due to Inflation

Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt PC on 10/3/2022

In April of 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14026, which increased the minimum wage for employees of federal government contractors to $15. The Executive Order provided that this minimum wage would be adjusted to...more

Tipping Points – DOL Issues New Opinions About Paying Tipped Employees

Jaburg Wilk on 2/3/2021

Days before the January 20, 2021, presidential inauguration, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), under the outgoing administration, issued a flurry of new regulations, rules and opinion letters that could significantly impact...more

New Tipping Regulations Will Take Effect March 1, 2021

Stokes Wagner on 1/21/2021

The Department of Labor has issued new tipping regulations, to take effect on March 1, that make a few significant changes, some of which may be advantageous to hospitality employers....more

“Bonus Material” – A Deeper Dive Into The U.S. Department of Labor’s Final Regulations on the Fluctuating Workweek

Fisher Phillips on 5/27/2020

The U.S Department of Labor’s final regulations addressing the Fluctuating Workweek (FWW) method of payment finally, explicitly confirm that you can pay an employee via the FWW method and still pay a bonus, commission, etc....more

DOL Issues Update on Joint Employment under the FLSA

Poyner Spruill LLP on 2/11/2020

For the first time in 60 years, the U.S. Department of Labor updated the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA) joint employer regulations. (29 C.F.R. §§ 791.1 to 791.3.)...more

Supreme Court Denies Stay of DOL’s Home Care Rule

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace on 10/8/2015

On December 22, 2014, in Home Care Association of America v. Weil, the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia vacated a key portion of a U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) regulation amending the minimum wage and...more

Because you are asking . . . DOL Says New Proposed Rule On White Collar Exemptions Under The FLSA Will Be Issued In February 2015

Womble Bond Dickinson on 1/22/2015

As many of you know, last year President Obama directed the DOL to issue new regulations to “modernize and streamline” the white collar exemptions to the minimum wage and overtime requirements under the FLSA. (Keep in mind...more

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