The calendar has flipped from February to March, but there is still nothing from the Department of Labor regarding new regulations governing the Fair Labor Standards Act. Don’t worry, you haven’t missed anything. The DOL missed its February deadline and has not announced any new deadlines just yet. As we have written here, the new
DOL Wage and Hour Division Announces Fiscal Year 2014 Recovery of $240 Million From Employers
Last week, Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) Administrator Dr. David Weil, who we have profiled in the past, announced on the DOL’s blog that WHD recovered more than $240 million dollars from employers on behalf of workers during fiscal year 2014, which ended last September. This total was down about 4%
Predictable Scheduling: The Next FLSA Frontier?
As if the DOL’s new Fair Labor Standards Act regulations weren’t enough to fill your plate this year, a recent interview (subscription required) that the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division Administrator David Weil gave to BNA’s Daily Labor Report has added to what portends to be a monumental shift in wage and hour law.
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FLSA Minimum Wage, Overtime Lawsuits Smash Records in 2014, Sharp Growth Continues
The dawning of a new year means it is time to look back at the number of cases filed in federal courts during the past year under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Every year seemingly without fail, that number goes up. 2014 was no exception.
According to figures from PACER, litigants filed a total
Department of Labor, Trucking Industry Big Winners in Congress’s CRomnibus Bill
In the run-up to the holidays, Congress rushed a Continuing Resolution (CR) to President Obama’s desk entitled the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2015. The omnibus spending bill, nicknamed “CRomnibus,” avoided another government shutdown and funded most federal agencies (save for the Department of Homeland Security) through the federal government’s 2015
DOL Sets February 2015 Deadline for New FLSA “White Collar” Overtime Exemption Regulations
UPDATE (5/27/2015): The DOL sent draft FLSA regulations to the Office of Management and Budget on May 5, 2015 for approval prior to their public release. For the most current updates on the status and content of these new regulations, please see our series of posts on this topic.
Late last month, the Department
If I was Secretary of Labor: Fixing the FLSA with a Safe Harbor
Last week, I answered some of the questions that we have been receiving about the new FLSA regulations, but I saved one that I hear almost everywhere I go: what should the Department of Labor do with the FLSA? Last week, I said “start over.” Of course, that’s not going to happen. Scrapping the
Fear and Loathing in D.C.: More Thoughts and Predictions about the New FLSA Regulations
For most of the year, we have been discussing the upcoming FLSA regulations and what employers can expect related to the white collar exemptions. Recently, the DOL delayed the release of proposed rules, potentially for several months. The DOL’s announcement has raised a host of questions, some of which I discussed with SHRM’s legal
DOL Backs Paid Leave Push in 3 States, D.C. with $500,000 Grant
Recently, we detailed the efforts to push for paid sick leave by state and local governments in light of California’s passage of a statewide paid leave law. Soon after our post, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau Director Latifa Lyles posted an entry on the DOL’s official “Work in Progress” blog, advocating for
DOL Makes It Official: New FLSA Regulations Delayed Until 2015
Back in late May, we told you that the Department of Labor had released its required Semiannual Regulatory Agenda. The Agenda, which is not binding on the DOL, included several FLSA-related items. Most importantly, the DOL listed its plans to address the “white collar” overtime exemption regulations with proposed rules next month, in