by Girish Anand | Feb 16, 2011 | Federal Labor Law
The U.S. Supreme Court may end up deciding the issue, but for now one circuit court is saying yea and another nay to whether pharmaceutical sales representatives are eligible for overtime pay. The issue centers on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) exemption from...
by Girish Anand | Dec 3, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
The Department of Labor (DOL) announced recently that it has collected more than $300 million in back wages since 2009, benefiting some 385,000 workers. Typically, back wages represent overtime pay that was withheld either knowingly or unknowingly. Since taking over,...
by Girish Anand | Jul 15, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, Personnel Concepts
The Department of Labor (DOL) recently updated its regulations regarding child labor in the U.S.—calling them "the most ambitious and far-reaching revisions" in the past 30 years—and these new regs are set to go into effect this coming Monday,...
by Girish Anand | Jun 18, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, Personnel Concepts, State Labor Law
The Department of Labor (DOL) has announced stiffer penalties for violation of the child labor laws covered under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and other pieces of legislation. "Beginning today, employers who hire children too young to work will face...
by Girish Anand | May 6, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law
If you find yourself reclassifying your employees as non-exempt (from previously being exempt), then you could end up in deep legal doo-doo like the Michigan Bell Telephone Company. Reason? It doesn’t take employees long to figure out that, if they’re...