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Agricultural Law & Rural Practice | Solo Small Firm & General Practice Section
Employer New Year’s Resolution #2: Comprehensive Wage & Hour Audit
By Erica Reib
As we start the second full week of January, we bring employers a second employment law resolution: a comprehensive wage and hour audit. So, even if you’re sticking to your…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
Avoiding Costly Lawsuits: Timely Final Wage Payments in Connecticut
A few weeks ago, I came across a new class action lawsuit filed against a national delivery service. The case involves a simple issue: the company allegedly failed to pay…
The Employer Handbook Blog
Part Two: What the DOL Just Clarified About FLSA Exemptions and Bonus Pay
On January 5, 2026, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division issued six opinion letters addressing a range of FMLA and FLSA issues. This post – part…
The Employer Handbook Blog
FMLA Travel Time and Snow Days: What the DOL Just Clarified
Two different HR questions triggered two formal FMLA opinion letters this week – and both answers will feel uncomfortably familiar to the employers they affect. On January 5, 2026, the…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
How Recent DOL Opinion Letters Impact Wage and Hour Practices
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage & Hour Division (WHD) has issued four new opinion letters under the Fair Labor Standards Act. These letters give employers clear guidance on how…
Agricultural Law & Rural Practice | Solo Small Firm & General Practice Section
No Tax on Overtime
President Trump signed H.R. 1 (commonly known as, the One Big Beautiful Bill) into law on July 4, 2025, which includes a no tax on overtime provision effective January 1,…
Law and the Workplace
The Long Arm of FLSA Retaliation: Lessons from the Ninth Circuit’s Decision in Hollis
By Allan Bloom, Rachel Edelson
The Fair Labor Standards Act was one of the earliest American workplace laws to contain an explicit anti-retaliation provision. Modeled after the anti-retaliation provisions in other New Deal legislation, including…
California Public Agency Labor & Employment Blog
New OBBBA Overtime Rules: IRS Grants Penalty Relief for Employers in 2025 and Provides Transition-Year Guide to Individual Workers Seeking to Claim Overtime Deductions
By Kelly Tuffo
Since our original post detailing the tracking and reporting requirements imposed by the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (“OBBBA”) for federal tax deduction of qualified overtime compensation (i.e., Fair Labor…
Vedder Works
Third Circuit Signals Shift in Requirements for Releaseof FLSA Claims In Class Action Settlements
By James P. Looby, Gina E. Nicotera
We recently discussed in an article for Law360 the shifting landscape across the country regarding the release of wage and hour claims. On October 16, 2025, in a unanimous decision,…
Ogletree Deakins Insights
Three Wage-and-Hour Issues for Employers to Prioritize for 2026
By By Dee Anna D. Hays, Sarah Smith Kuehnel
Quick Hits Employers may want to prepare for 2026 by mapping exempt roles in Alaska, California, Maine, New York, and Washington to new salary thresholds and implementing adjustments aligned with…