As he suggested during his 2014 State of the Union address, President Obama intends to “lead by example” to increase the minimum wage by urging businesses to raise employee wages and by increasing minimum wages payable to...more
In This Presentation:
- Introduction
- FLSA “White Collar” Exemptions
- Three Tests for Exemption
- Salary Level Test
- Salary Basis Test
- Can the Employer Make Deductions?
-...more
Effective January 1, 2014, the minimum wage increased in 13 states. With these increases, 21 states and the District of Columbia now have minimum wage rates higher than the federal minimum wage rate of $7.25 an hour. In some...more
As a result of changes in North Carolina’s state income tax law, employees must complete a new Employee’s Withholding Allowance Certificate, Form NC-4 or Form NC-4EZ, so that employers can withhold the correct amount of North...more
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division issued a final rule on September 17, 2013 that will extend the minimum wage and overtime protections of the Fair Labor Standards Act to in-home workers who...more
The North Carolina General Assembly passed new gun control legislation this past session which was signed into law by Governor Pat McCrory on July 29, 2013. ...more
9/3/2013
As of May 7, 2013, all employers must be using the new, revised Form I-9 issued by the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services. Employers are required to complete and retain a Form I-9 to verify the identity and...more
In its first Administrator's Interpretation of 2013, the Department of Labor ("DOL") issued guidance on the definition of a "son or daughter" age 18 or older who is incapable of self-care due to a disability. The Wage and...more
In the recent case of Brown v. ScriptPro, LLC, the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that it was the employee's burden to provide evidence of the amount of overtime he allegedly worked and that his failure to use his...more
By January 1, 2013, employers and consumer reporting agencies must use revised, updated forms for certain notices required by the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA). The revisions indicate that the recently created Consumer...more
California and Louisiana recently became the twelfth and thirteenth states, respectively, to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with the federal Department of Labor ("DOL") as part of the DOL's effort to detect and...more