by admin | Aug 7, 2014 | Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
Earlier, we learned that business owners in the SeaTac community of Washington had found innovative ways to combat the effects of a mandated new $15-an-hour minimum wage — charging for parking, ending free food, making employees pay for uniforms — and now...
by admin | Aug 5, 2014 | DOL, Federal Labor Law, FLSA, Minimum Wage Law
LinkedIn Corp. has agreed to pay $3,346,195 in overtime back wages and $2,509,646 in liquidated damages to 359 former and current employees working at company branches in California, Illinois, Nebraska and New York. An investigation by the Department of Labor’s...
by admin | Jul 24, 2014 | Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
Two signature-gathering efforts to place a referendum on the ballot to eliminate Seattle's mandated new $15-an-hour minimum wage have failed. Needing 16,510 voters' signatures to make the ballot, an effort by business group Forward Seattle qualified 14,818...
by Girish Anand | Jul 16, 2014 | FLSA, Minimum Wage Law
A class action lawsuit on behalf of the minor leaguers of all 30 Major League Baseball (MLB) teams is seeking minimum wages plus overtime. As it stands, minor leaguers currently earn a maximum starting salary of $5,500 for toiling from spring to fall. The case, Senne...
by Girish Anand | Jul 9, 2014 | DOL, Minimum Wage Law
The Department of Labor (DOL), besieged by requests for more time to comment on its proposal to raise the minimum wage for federal contract employees, has extended the public commentary period until July 28, 2014. In announcing the extension, the DOL explained the...
by Girish Anand | Jun 26, 2014 | Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick today signed S.2195, “An Act Restoring the Minimum Wage and Providing Unemployment Insurance Reforms,” a bill that "gradually raises the minimum wage to $11 over three years, lowers unemployment insurance (UI) costs...