If a tree falls in the forest but there is no one around to hear, does it make a sound? If a non-exempt worker answers an e-mail message after hours on her Blackberry but fails to put in for overtime,
Wage & Hour Insights
Guidance & Solutions for Employers
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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The NLRB’s New Target: FLSA Settlement Agreements
By FranczekPC
The National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or the “Board”) has once again weighed in on employer use of confidentiality and non-disparagement language, this time in the settlement arena. Recently, the NLRB withheld its approval of a global settlement of Fair…
New Exemption Rules May Be Delayed To Late 2016
By Bill Pokorny
Waiting is the hardest part. Ever since the Department of Labor issued its proposal to substantially increase the minimum salary level needed to classify an employee as an exempt executive, administrative or professional employee, employers have been asking when the…
Friendly Reminder: The Computer Employee Exemption
By FranczekPC
We recently received a question regarding whether an employer could classify certain IT employees as exempt under the Computer Employee exemption. With the long-awaited final DOL overtime rules for the white collar exemptions yet to make their appearance, we thought…
Supreme Court to Resolve Circuit Split on OT Pay for Car Dealerships?
By FranczekPC
As you have read in our blog over the years, the misclassification of employees as exempt is one of the primary claims in wage and hour litigation. Misclassification claims can arise in many forms, including the classification of a certain…
Do we have to keep track of exempt employee time? [Wage & Hour FAQ]
By Bill Pokorny
Q. We keep track of work hours for non-exempt employees using an electronic timekeeping system. For our exempt employees, we really have no records of how many hours they are working each day or week. Are we required to? Even…
U.S. Supreme Court Denies Stay of the DOL Wage Rule for Home Care Workers
By FranczekPC
The Department of Labor (DOL) promulgated a rule that brings home care workers, employed by third parties, within the protection of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). As a result, those home care workers employed by an entity other than…
What is the Cost of a Free Lunch? [Wage & Hour FAQ]
By Bill Pokorny
Q. We offer free lunches to our food service employees. Can we count the cost of these lunches as part of our employees’ compensation? A. The short answer is yes, but as we all know, there’s no such thing as…
DOL to Pay $1.5 Million to Employer for Bad Faith Investigation
By Erin Fowler
In an interesting turn of events and what I’m sure will be gratifying for some employers, the Department of Labor has agreed to pay Gate Guard Services $1.5 million to settle claims involving the DOL’s overly aggressive and bad faith…
Many Home Companionship Workers No Longer Exempt
By Bill Pokorny
Agencies and other third-party employers of live-in household employees and home companionship providers, take note: the long-delayed regulations reclassifying many of these workers as non-exempt employees entitled to minimum wage and overtime under the FLSA are now in effect. Since 1974,…