You’ve wined and dined and trained and invested in your new hire, and now they’re leaving you in the midst – before you were ready – can you still get the ring back, or in this case, “clawback” your training and other related...more
10/13/2022
/ Clawbacks ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) ,
Debt ,
Employee Training ,
Employees ,
Employment Contract ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Labor Regulations ,
Repayment Options ,
Termination Fees
The old “80/20 rule” is back again for tipped workers under the latest proposed Final Rule issued by the Department of Labor (DOL) last month. Employers in the service industry, especially those employers who take a tip...more
7/7/2021
/ Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Food Service Workers ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
Minimum Wage ,
Restaurant Industry ,
Tip Credit ,
Tip-Pooling ,
Tipped Employees ,
Tips ,
Wage and Hour
Right on the heels of the Department of Labor (DOL) issuing a new joint employer liability test under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has issued its own employer-friendly final rule for...more
3/4/2020
/ Browning-Ferris Industries of California Inc. ,
Collective Bargaining ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Federal Labor Laws ,
Final Rules ,
Franchises ,
Hiring & Firing ,
Joint Employers ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Regulatory Reform ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Staffing Agencies ,
Unions ,
Wage and Hour
The holiday cheer keeps coming from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) with the release of three new decisions favoring employers: (1) workplace policies covering confidentiality during workplace investigations are...more
12/24/2019
/ Boeing ,
Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBA) ,
Confidentiality Policies ,
Dues Checkoff ,
Electronic Communications ,
Email ,
Employer Liability Issues ,
Employment Policies ,
Labor Reform ,
Labor Regulations ,
Labor Relations ,
NLRA ,
NLRB ,
Non-Work Hours ,
Policies and Procedures ,
Purple Communications ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Rulemaking Process ,
Section 7 ,
Union Dues ,
Union Organizers ,
Unions ,
Workplace Investigations
Employers looking for guidance on payroll rounding practices, classification of certain highly compensated paralegals and calculating overtime where employees receive non-discretionary bonuses will be glad to know the...more
7/24/2019
/ Bonuses ,
Compensation & Benefits ,
Corporate Counsel ,
Department of Labor (DOL) ,
Employee Definition ,
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) ,
Labor Regulations ,
Minimum Wage ,
New Guidance ,
Opinion Letter ,
Over-Time ,
Paralegal ,
Payroll Records ,
Rate of Pay ,
Wage and Hour