There has been a great deal of controversy over whether FLSA claims can be released absent judicial or USDOL approval. There have been some courts that have ruled that parties
Continue Reading The Issue Of Judicial Approval On Single Plaintiff FLSA Settlements Continues To Demand Attention
Whether hours spent on call are compensable hours of work is a question of fact to be decided in the context of a given case, based upon a variety of
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As I have written numerous times, the administrative exemption is the grayest and most difficult for an employer to prove The tension between whether duties involve skill and experience or
Continue Reading Property Damage Investigators Do Not Meet FLSA Administrative Exemption Test: Another Lesson For Employers On This Grayest of Gray Exemptions
I do a lot of prevailing wage defense and am always interested in developments in this nuanced area of wage-hour law. I have noticed a trend lately that States (e.g.
Continue Reading New Prevailing Wage Law In Illinois Puts Pressure On General Contractors To Sign Up With Unions: The Government Assisting In Top-Down Organizing!The issue of willfulness is always front and center in a FLSA litigation. In an interesting case now before a federal appellate court, the class of employees who prevailed in
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I am very interested in travel time cases. There are some nuanced concepts hovering around travel time, especially the concept of what constitutes non-compensable home-to-work travel. In an interesting case
Continue Reading Is Travel From A Meeting/Staging Area To A Work Site Still Only Home-to-Work Travel Time?What employers often miss when calculating proper overtime is that they must include in the regular rate different kinds of supplemental payments that non-exempt people receive. If they do not
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There has been an initiative to revise the Davis Bacon Act (“DBA”) regulations and I have been following this closely as the DBA (and prevailing wage work) have always been
Continue Reading The Proposed Davis-Bacon Act Regulations: The Dichotomy Between Management And LaborA favorite tactic of the New Jersey Department of Labor, in a prevailing wage case, where the subcontractor cannot pay the assessments, is to go “upstream” against the General Contractor
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Last week, I blogged about a lawsuit where the allegations were that the Company failed to pay properly and record time properly, due to its involvement in the Kronos Hack
Continue Reading Voluntary Dismissal of Kronos Hack Lawsuit: Oops, The Plaintiff Got It Wrong!