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Employer Cash or Rebate Incentives for Employees are Taxable Compensation
Here is an interesting decision by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) involving an issue at the intersection of employment and tax law. On the employment side, when it comes to…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Jailhouse Blues
The New York Times is reporting today on a Fifth Circuit decision holding that inmates are not entitled to minimum wage for work performed in prison. The plaintiff alleged that…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Three New DOL Opinion Letters Regarding Fair Labor Standards Act Issues
Thanks to the New Mexico Labor and Employment Law Blog for bringing these three new DOL Opinion letters concerning federal wage and hour issues to our attention:Exemptionmet if foreign currency…
The UCL Practitioner
Follow-up onBahramipour v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., 2006 WL 449132 (N.D. Cal. 2006)
According to the blog Federal Civil Practice Bulletin, Judge Wilken's decision in Bahramipour v. Citigroup Global Markets, Inc., 2006 WL 449132 (N.D. Cal. 2006) was soon followed by a $98…
The D&O Diary
Notes from Around the Web
FLSA "Explosion": The June 5, 2006 issue of the Wall Street Journal has an article (subscription required) commenting on the "explosion" in cases under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).…
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Top-5 Labor SSRN Downloads
Michael McCann & Joseph Rosen, Legality of Age Restrictions in the NBA and the NFL (171).Francine J. Lipman, Taxing Undocumented Immigrants: Separate, Unequal and Without Representation (99).Richard A. Bales, The…
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Are Student Externs FLSA “Employees”?
No, says the Department of Labor, in Opinion Letter FLSA2006-12.The issue was whether students in a university’s externship program were considered employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The DOL…
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California Minimum Wage Debate Update
Sticking with the FLSA theme this morning (probably all subconscious because I just finished teaching the FLSA to my students in Employer-Employee Relations), Storm's California Employment Law blog has this…
Labor Law Prof Blog
Fifth Circuit: Nurse Practitioners and Physician Assistants Not Exempt Under FLSA
In the recent case of Belt v. EmCare, Inc., 05-40370-CV (5th Cir., Mar. 24, 2006), the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals considered whether nurse practitioners (NPs) and physician assistants (PAs)…
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Major Overtime Class Action Against IBM
According to the AP, tens of thousands of workers have sued IBM claiming that Big Blue failed to pay them overtime premium pay. From the article:The suit was filed in…