#WorkforceWednesday®: FTC Exits Labor Pact, EEOC Alleges Significant Underrepresentation in Tech, Sixth Circuit Affirms NLRB Ruling - Employment Law This Week®
(Podcast) California Employment News – Key Rules for California Employers: Business Expense Reimbursement
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Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 30: Plaintiff Legal Trends with Paul Porter of Cromer, Babb & Porter
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The Chartwell Chronicles: Employment Law Updates
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California Employment News - Navigating the New PAGA Reforms: What Employers Need to Know
California Employment News - Navigating the New PAGA Reforms: What Employers Need to Know (Podcast)
Employment Law Now VIII-145 – Status Update: Injunctions for FTC Non-Compete Ban and DOL Overtime Exemption Regs
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The Burr Broadcast: FLSA Overtime Exemption
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 22: Compensation Programs with Carrie Cavanaugh of Find Great People
California Employment News: Can Pre- and Post-Shift Activities Be Compensated
Work This Way: A Labor & Employment Law Podcast - Episode 21: Economic, Industry, and Workforce Development in the City of Greenville with Mayor Knox White
Clocking in with PilieroMazza: Labor and Employment News for Government Contractors
In two separate rulings this week, federal agencies were stopped from enforcing new rulemaking that would significantly remake key areas of employment and non-discrimination law. In the first of these cases, Dept of...more
The U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas granted a nationwide preliminary injunction blocking certain wage rules adopted by the Department of Labor (DOL) that had expanded coverage of the Davis-Bacon Act...more
I have closely followed the new initiative by the USDOL on its changing in a dramatic way the manner in which prevailing wage rates are determined. That effort, however, has, for the moment, come to an end as a federal judge...more
Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued a final rule modifying the standard for determining whether employees qualify for several key exemptions to the overtime pay requirements set by the Fair Labor...more
As we previously reported, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new final rule increasing the minimum salary amounts for the executive, administrative, and professional (EAP) and highly compensated employee exemptions....more
A federal judge in Texas granted a preliminary injunction on June 28, 2024, barring the July 1, 2024, effect of a new U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) overtime regulation that would have increased the salary threshold for...more
Major League Baseball Hall of Fame Manager Earl Weaver managed his way to 1,480 wins. When asked how, Mr. Weaver cut to the chase: “The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three-run homers.” While...more
Late Monday afternoon, a federal judge in Texas denied a marketing firm’s motion for a preliminary injunction to halt the DOL’s new overtime rule. This denial affirms that, for now, employers, other than the State of Texas,...more
A federal judge in Texas denied a private company’s request to halt the U.S. Department of Labor’s FIRST PHASE of its new FLSA salary level rule. As you recall, the first phase of the new rule went into effect on July 1,...more
There was good news and bad news on Friday from one of the lawsuits challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s regulation increasing the salary threshold for the so-called white-collar exemptions to the overtime requirements...more
The State of Texas as an employer will not have to comply with Monday’s new exempt salary threshold for the so-called “white-collar” exemptions because of a court order issued late on Friday. But the ruling is limited: Texas...more
On Friday, a federal district court granted a preliminary injunction sought by the State of Texas to block implementation of the U.S. Department of Labor’s new rule increasing minimum salaries for overtime exempt employee....more
On June 28, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a limited injunction of the U.S. Department of Labor’s new regulations increasing the minimum salary that certain executive, administrative,...more
Real World Implications of Challenges to the Rule: A federal district court in Texas has enjoined the DOL’s 2024 Salary Rule (which takes effect today, July 1, 2024) for employees of the state of Texas, and we anticipate a...more
Most employers in the United States will start the month of July with a higher salary requirement to exempt certain employees from minimum wage and overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). However, a June 28th...more
On Friday, June 24, 2024, the business day before the Biden Department of Labor’s new overtime rule was scheduled to take effect, a federal district judge granted the State of Texas’s motion for a preliminary injunction to...more
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Texas just struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s (NLRB) new rule that broadened the test for determining when separate businesses may be considered joint...more
Employers in the United States received a significant win on March 8, 2024 when a federal court in Texas struck down the National Labor Relations Board’s (“Board”) expansive new “joint employer” rule, and upheld the existing...more
This 14th edition of Unprecedented, our weekly update on COVID-19-related litigation, showcases new and evolving trends. Employers are facing claims for both doing too much and too little in response to the COVID-19 pandemic....more
The Texas Workforce Commission (“TWC”), the agency responsible for administering unemployment benefits and assessing unemployment taxes, recently adopted a rule (“Rule”) pursuant to which certain workers who provide services...more
On November 16, 2018, the Austin-based 3rd Court of Appeals declared Austin’s paid sick and safe leave ordinance unconstitutional. Specifically, the court held the ordinance is preempted by the Texas Minimum Wage Act and is,...more
Earlier this year, the city of Austin became the first Texas city to join the growing number of localities throughout the nation passing legislation requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees. ...more
Austin, Texas recently became the first municipality in the South to enact a paid sick and safe leave law for private sector employees. The sick and safe leave ordinance will take effect on October 1, 2018 for employers with...more
Texas legislators recently passed S.B. 652, which seeks to protect franchisors from employment liability for the actions of franchisees. Enacted in June 2015, S.B. 652 amends the Texas Labor Code to specify that a franchisor...more
In response to concerns of franchisors that recent National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) actions threaten to undermine the common understanding of a franchisor-franchisee relationship, the Texas Labor Code was amended by the...more