Understanding the New Overtime Tax Policies in the Big Beautiful Bill
Is the Four-Day Workweek Really a Benefit? What’s the Tea in L&E?
Keeping Up with Exemption Threshold Regulations
Are Overtime Wages and Tips Exempt From Income Tax? What Employers Need to Know to Prepare
Constangy Clips Ep. 6 - Federal Court Blocks DOL Rule: What Employers Need to Know
Holiday Headaches: Avoiding Legal Risks with PTO, Overtime, and Workplace Festivities
Employment Law Now VIII-154 - Court Invalidates DOL's 2024 Overtime Salary Threshold Increases
#WorkforceWednesday®: DOL Authority Challenged - Key Rulings on Overtime and Tip Credit - Employment Law This Week®
Employment Law Now VIII-145 – Status Update: Injunctions for FTC Non-Compete Ban and DOL Overtime Exemption Regs
Hospice Labor and Employment Trends - Get Up to Speed Fast: What You Need to Know About the New Rules Involving Non-Competes and Exempt Employees
The Burr Broadcast: FLSA Overtime Exemption
DOL’s Expanded Overtime Salary Limits, EEOC’s Sexual Harassment Guidance, NY’s Mandatory Paid Prenatal Leave - Employment Law This Week®
What's the Tea in L&E? Alert: Salary Threshold for Exempt Employees Increases to $58,656
VIDEO: Major Changes Coming for Employers
Employment Law Now VIII-143 - Federal Agency Update (Part 2 of 2)
#WorkforceWednesday: The Department of Labor's New Rules and Rising Challenges - Employment Law This Week®
The Burr Broadcast: Proposed Expanded Overtime Rule
Employment Law Now VII-135-Summer 2023 Wrap-Up Part 1 (NEW DOL OVERTIME RULE)
#WorkforceWednesday: NLRB Focuses on Severance Agreements, Supreme Court Opens Overtime to HCEs, Ninth Circuit Rejects CA's Mandatory Arbitration Ban - Employment Law This Week®
DE Under 3: Reversal of 2019 Enterprise Rent-a-Car Trial Decision; EEOC Commissioner Nominee Update; Overtime Listening Session
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced several self-audit programs to assist employers, unions, and benefit plan officials with voluntarily assessing and correcting their compliance with federal labor laws. One of those...more
The majority of a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has upheld a finding that a medical staffing agency misclassified approximately 1,100 nurses as independent contractors and owed them...more
Washington employers are experiencing a significant rise in wage-and-hour class action lawsuits, a trend that has accelerated with the recent entry of several California-based law firms into the state. These firms,...more
The freshly enacted “One Big Beautiful Bill” introduces two above-the-line tax deductions for tips and overtime wages. While these deductions offer potential savings for eligible workers, they come with new compliance...more
In my 20+ years as a management-side employment lawyer, I used to receive calls about all kinds of workplace situations, but there is one category that still gives me nightmares. “Hi Steve. Long time, no talk. The reason I’m...more
In Illinois, nondiscretionary “performance bonuses,” such as bonuses paid in recognition of employees satisfying certain performance and safety metrics and seniority goals, must be factored into employees’ regular rate of pay...more
This week President Donald Trump nominated attorney Jonathan Berry to be the next solicitor of the Department of Labor (DOL). Berry worked in the department during the first Trump administration, and he was the sole author of...more
On January 19, a federal district court in Arkansas paved the way for a jury to decide whether 2,000 employees were entitled to recover unpaid overtime for all weeks in which they worked more than 40 hours, while having...more
The Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently clarified the evidentiary bar for employees bringing Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime claims, requiring employees to provide specific, detailed evidence of their work...more
The Domestic Worker Bill of Rights (California Assembly Bill 241 and Senate Bill 1015), enacted in 2013, is a California law that grants overtime pay rights to personal attendants who were not previously entitled to overtime...more
Employers are breathing a sigh of relief after the U.S. Supreme Court last week unanimously confirmed the application of a “preponderance of the evidence” standard to an employer’s burden of proof when it seeks to establish...more
The Arizona minimum wage increased from $14.35 per hour to $14.70 per hour. The latest increase will take effect on January 1, 2025, and will remain in effect until December 31, 2025. This means that Arizona employers will...more
Dutch law prohibits employers from paying full-time employees differently—i.e., more favorably—than part-time employees, unless the difference in pay can be objectively justified. This is not readily the case, however....more
Hot off the press – here is Littler’s mid-year report! As federal regulators, states and cities continue to pass new workplace regulations through the calendar year, we summarize each state’s notable labor and employment law...more
With 2024 underway, we highlight some of the most pressing legal issues facing employers this year, including increased regulation of noncompetition agreements, new paid family and medical leave laws, a new Overtime Rule, and...more
Provisions included in a must-pass budget bill will make significant changes for Connecticut hospitals. These changes, which were embedded in the nearly 900-page Public Act 23-204 signed into law on June 12, 2023, revise...more
All employers subject to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) must post an updated version of the FLSA “Employee Rights” poster to remain compliant with the law....more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years — and this past...more
Are you paying employees using a day rate under the FLSA? If so, you may want to read the Fifth Circuit’s recent ruling in the latest string of Helix Energy cases. According to the Fifth Circuit, companies who do business in...more
Welcome to our inaugural edition of #WorkforceWednesday, featuring Employment Law This Week®, blog posts, client alerts, and other helpful resources from Epstein Becker Green’s Employment, Labor & Workforce Management...more
In this first new episode of 2020 (Season 4), we look at the 15 hot topics your company should have on your list to think about....more
To tackle the karoshi (“death by overwork”) problem, Japan enacted the Workstyle Reform Act in June 2018. The Act requires employers to implement specific measures to limit employees’ working hours and create a healthier and...more
It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more
The Situation: On May 14, 2019, the Grand Chamber of the European Court of Justice ("ECJ") issued a Judgment mandating that EU Member States require employers to register the daily working time of their employees. The...more