As Spring is here and people will be outside playing sports, I find it exhilarating to be able to blog on a sports-related wage-hour issue. One, amazingly, that has gone up to a federal appellate court. In this case a group of volunteer golf attendants sued for wages, asserting they…
Continue Reading Golf Playing Volunteers Want Pay For Teeing Off: Eleventh Circuit Hands Them A Bogey!There is a good deal of confusion regarding the proper treatment of domestic employees for…
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Continue Reading The Fluctuating Work Week Arrangement: What Does Fluctuate Really Mean?Under the FLSA, for training time to not be counted as working hours, there are…
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My colleagues, Colin Dougherty and Lindsey Cook, wrote about the coming of a new USDOL independent contractor rule that would likely further hamper an employer’s ability to use individuals (e.g.
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Continue Reading Materials Delivery And Davis-Bacon Act Prevailing Wage Rates: What Are The Rules?I read an interesting post by Sara Zorich of Amundsen Davis concerning the year-end wage hour issues that employers must deal with, and I agree with the concepts set forth…
Continue Reading Employers Must Beware Of Year-End Wage Hour Issues/Landmines!NJ Attorney General Reveals New Weapon In State’s Fight Against Misclassification
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The FLSA regulations on training time are very specific and, often, hard for an employer to comply with. There are four conditions precedent for such time to be non-compensable and…
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Continue Reading Will These Call Center Cases Ever End? Another Settlement Says Probably Not!Bow-Wow–Security Officers Want Pay For Canine Care: Yet Another “Dog” Of A Case!
As you may know, I am a big student of working time cases and often blog about them. One of my favorite categories of such cases are the so-called “dog…
Continue Reading Bow-Wow–Security Officers Want Pay For Canine Care: Yet Another “Dog” Of A Case!Now that the clocks have changed for the ending of Daylight Savings Time (DST) there may be overtime implications for employers, especially for those employees who work graveyard or overnight…
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