Showing posts with label Fair Labor Standards Act. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fair Labor Standards Act. Show all posts
Monday, September 21, 2020

Court Strikes Down Trump Administration Rule to Benefit Wage Violators

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Recent Trump Administration efforts to chip away at employee protections under federal law faced a setback earlier this month. A federal cou...
Thursday, June 4, 2020

Are You Employed in Retail? The Administration is Threatening Your Overtime Pay

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Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”)  issued a final rule  that would seek to deprive large numbers of employees overtime wages. ...
Thursday, September 26, 2019

New (Watered-Down) Overtime Pay Rule Announced By Department of Labor

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This week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a final rule that starting January 1, 2020, 1.3 million more American workers will b...
Tuesday, May 22, 2018

Epic Fail: U.S. Supreme Court Rules that Employers May Require Employees to Waive Right to Bring a Class Action as a Condition of Employment

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On Monday, the Roberts Court took another significant step in its ongoing project to hobble class actions and impose barriers to employe...
Monday, November 27, 2017

The Supreme Court Denies Certiorari of Ninth Circuit Ruling that Mortgage Underwriters are Non-Exempt Employees

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Today, the Supreme Court of the United States summarily denied certiorari  to an appeal from a recent Ninth Circuit decision, McKeen-Chap...
Wednesday, July 5, 2017

Ninth Circuit Holds Mortgage Underwriters are Entitled to Overtime Under the Fair Labor Standards Act

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Today, the Ninth Circuit held in McKeen-Chaplin v. Provident Savings Bank that mortgage underwriters are entitled to overtime compensat...
Friday, April 28, 2017

Defeating Chindarah v. Pick Up Stix Releases

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California employers sometimes seek to nip wage and hour class actions in the bud by buying off individual class members for nominal payme...
Wednesday, December 14, 2016

The Fate of the Department of Labor's New Overtime Rule is in Limbo, and its Prospects are Dim

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Recent developments in the judicial and executive branches of the federal government make it unlikely that a key effort by the Obama Adm...
Friday, November 13, 2015

Class Actions Appear Poised to Survive to Fight Another Day at High Court

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At least five justices of the U.S. Supreme Court suggested at Tuesday’s oral argument in Tyson Foods, Inc. v. Bouaphakeo , No. 14-1146, tha...