Minimum Wage, Over-Time, New Regulations

Local Governments Crank Up the Heat With Summer Minimum Wage Increases Effective July 1, 2025

Greenberg Glusker LLP on 7/1/2025

On July 1, 2025, minimum wage increases will go into effect in certain cities and counties in California. In the City of Los Angeles, the minimum wage will increase from $17.28/hour to $17.87/hour. For hotel employees at...more

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

Summer 2024 Employment and Benefits Updates

Sullivan & Worcester on 7/30/2024

The rate of change in the employment and benefits area seems to be accelerating. This alert addresses some of the changes that have been of most concern to our clients. Observations on Long-Time Part-Time Employee...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

Minor League Compensation and the Save America’s Pastime Act of 2018

Payne & Fears on 7/31/2018

“BASEBALL IS LIFE. The rest is just details.” To members of the Green Valley High School (Henderson, Nevada) varsity baseball team in the mid-1990s, this wasn’t just a catchphrase on a t-shirt; it was gospel. We lived and...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

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