Recently, we told you that President Obama had issued a Presidential Memorandum to the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) instructing its Secretary to update regulations regarding overtime protection for workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), the federal law that establishes minimum wage and overtime pay requirements. The regulations have not been revised at
The Boys of Summer: Interns, Seasonal Workers and More
Memorial Day weekend has passed, the Major League Baseball season is in full swing, and summer is upon us. With apologies to Roger Kahn, for us wage and hour practitioners, the “Boys of Summer” (and girls!) are the wave of workers joining employer workforces for the next few months. Whether they are interns in your
Three Square Meals er…Breaks – Why You Should Never Round Breaks [Wage & Hour FAQ]
If an employee clocks in from lunch at 12:25, do you round that time to 12:30? Unlike the beginning and end of a workday, rounding meal breaksI Don’t Always Round Time Entries, But When I Do…I Follow the FLSA Regs [Wage & Hour FAQ]
In my last post, I discussed how the FLSA approaches the “rounding” of time. In short, rounding is simply the practice of adjusting time clock punch times within specific bounds. For example, if your employees punch in for work at 7:57, 8:01, and 8:02, your rounding rules may treat all of those punches as
Keeping Payroll Well-Rounded (and FLSA compliant!) [Wage & Hour FAQ]
Whether you call it “rounding” or the “7/8ths rule” or have no word to describe it at all, rounding may be of central concern for employers, both in day-to-day operations and in litigation. Rounding is the practice of adjusting time clock punch times within specific bounds. For example, if your employees punch in for work
Wage and Hour Due Diligence Solutions in the M&A context
As I mentioned yesterday, in order to avoid costly lawsuits or DOL enforcement actions, FLSA and state wage and hour due diligence should be a substantial part of the overall due diligence process in any deal involving a company with employees, regardless of whether those employees will be employed by the buyer.
Here are
Limiting Successor Liability under the FLSA: Wage and Hour Due Diligence
Recently, my colleague Lindsey Marcus guest authored a post on yet another successor liability case, this time out of the Third Circuit. Her post reminded me of another case in the Seventh Circuit from 2013, and a larger point from the mergers and acquisitions part of my practice and my days doing M&A in
Ongoing Confusion about Tips, Even from the White House
Recently, I explained that revising the FLSA regulations will not be easy, and highlighted tip credits as one such area in particular. In my last post, I discussed yet another case involving the miscalculation of wages for tipped employees. This time, a large restaurant operator coughed up $2.86 million to settle a lawsuit alleging a
The 20% Rule for Tips is Back in the News
We’ve covered tips and tip credits at length in the past Senate Confirms First Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division Administrator in Decade
The Senate voted narrowly on Monday to confirm David Weil as administrator of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD). The narrow 51-42 majority followed a similarly narrow 12-10 party-line committee vote in December. The WHD is the DOL division that, among other duties, implements and enforces the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)