In a move that should surprise precisely no one who has been paying attention to current U.S. politics, GOP lawmakers in the U.S. House and Senate introduced legislation to block the U.S. DOL’s anticipated overtime exemption rules, just two days after
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Wage & Hour Insights, published by Franczek P.C., focuses on developments and compliance issues related to wage and hour laws, including the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state-specific regulations such as Illinois' pay transparency laws. The blog covers topics like overtime exemption rules, salary thresholds for exempt employees, pay scale disclosure requirements, and legal challenges affecting wage and hour policies. It also addresses related labor and employment law matters, including non-compete agreements and regulatory changes impacting employers and employees. The content is aimed at helping employers navigate evolving wage and hour regulations and maintain compliance.
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Check out our new look!
By Bill Pokorny
Frequent readers may notice that our blog looks a little bit different – updated color scheme, slightly different formatting and fonts, more responsive for mobile users. We hope you like the new look, and welcome any feedback!
Possible Final New Overtime Rule Before July
By FranczekPC
Just a few weeks ago, we posted our latest update on the Department of Labor’s proposed new overtime rule, which calls for a more than doubling of the salary level threshold for white collar exempt positions. At that time, we…
Unreported Working Lunches May Still Be Work Time
By Bill Pokorny
Back in December, we wrote about a case involving the Chicago Police Department, in which officers alleged that they were owed additional overtime for time spent responding to calls and messages on their Blackberry devices, but which they failed…
Continued Controversy Surrounding The Proposed New Overtime Rule
By FranczekPC
Since June, we have written a number of posts covering the Department of Labor’s proposed new overtime rule (see our posts here), and the more than doubling of the salary level threshold for white collar exempt positions. The proposed…
New FLSA Exemption Rules – Coming In July?
By Bill Pokorny
Over the last few months we’ve been asked on an almost daily basis when the DOL will be publishing its hotly anticipated white collar exemption rules. The short answer is still, we don’t know. A few months ago, the word was…
Involved In Multiple Businesses? You Might Be a Joint Employer!
By Bill Pokorny
In our previous post about the DOL’s new Administrator’s Interpretation (“AI”) on joint employment under the FLSA, we focused on “vertical” joint employment. That’s the variety of joint employment that exists when there is some sort of intermediary, like a…
Supreme Court Rejects One Strategy for Defeating Class and Collective Actions
By Bill Pokorny
By Guest Author: Michael A. Warner, Jr.
In recent years, one tactic for attempting to defeat wage and hour class and collective action lawsuits class action lawsuits has been to offer the named plaintiffs full relief for their individual claims…
Think Using a Temp Firm Solves Your FLSA Compliance Problems? Think Again, Says the DOL
By Bill Pokorny
On January 20, 2016, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor issued a new Administrator’s Interpretation (“AI”) on the issue of joint employment under the FLSA. What is joint employment? The FLSA generally applies only to…
Supreme Court Agrees to Hear Service Advisor OT Pay Split
By FranczekPC
As we reported back in October 2015 a car dealership, Encino Motorcars, petitioned the Supreme Court to “restore uniformity” to the enforcement of legal precedent and hold that service advisors are exempt from the FLSA’s overtime requirements. On Friday, the…