What Can the Show Severance Teach Us About Work-Life Balance? - Hiring to Firing Podcast
Dos Toros - Maintaining Culture While Scaling (and Having Fun)
III-43-Expert Roundtable Discussion on the Impact of Recent Regulatory Initiatives on Recruitment, Retention and the Retail Industry
III-41- Things That Make You Go “Hmmm” in Employment Law
Employment Law This Week®: OSHA’s Reporting Rule Rollback, CA’s Salary History Ban, NYC’s Temporary Schedule Change Law, Model FMLA Forms Expired
Episode 17: Predictable Schedules And Comp Time – The Next Wage & Hour Frontiers?
Introduction Since the COVID-19 pandemic hit and brought about much uncertainty, employers across the globe have had to grapple with the concept of flexible working. The implementation of flexible working differs from...more
In the days before cellphones, employees required to remain on-call for work were generally entitled to compensation for time spent at home waiting for the landline to ring. Given the ubiquity of mobile communication...more
On March 28, 2024, in Sutton v. Jordan’s Furniture, Inc., the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) upheld a Massachusetts Superior Court decision finding the furniture retailer’s commission-based compensation scheme...more
Increasing office attendance remains high on the agenda for many employers, but upcoming changes to the UK flexible working regime could prompt more requests to work from home. A recent Employment Tribunal judgment provides...more
Our January update includes a new Court of Session case giving (a degree of) certainty on settlement agreements prohibiting future unknown claims and a new case on constructive dismissal focusing on the rules around delaying...more
Earlier this month, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals (covering Texas, Mississippi, and Louisiana) issued an en banc decision in Hamilton v. Dallas County holding employees no longer have to show they were subject to an...more
In its recent en banc opinion in Hamilton v. Dallas County, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit overturned nearly 30 years of precedent that required Title VII plaintiffs to allege that they had been subjected to...more
On August 18, 2023, in Hamilton v. Dallas County, the full Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upended a longstanding precedent, significantly broadening the types of adverse employment actions that could give rise to an...more
Every minute counts in the workplace, but what happens when employees start stealing worktime for personal gain? This important issue is known as time theft which is the act of employees taking advantage of company time for...more
The federal Department of Labor (DOL) has long interpreted the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to allow an employer to pay a nonexempt employee a fixed salary for all hours worked in a workweek and “half-time” of an...more
A major characteristic of the past year was an array of interesting and innovative legislative initiatives and court rulings relating to employment in Israel. These initiatives and rulings addressed burning issues in the...more
The last two years have been an interesting respite for California employers. The COVID-19 pandemic impacted the legislature – just like other businesses – which resulted in abbreviated legislative schedules, fewer bills...more
While the focus of the Department of Labor ebbs and flows based on the administration, the DOL remains committed to enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act. Now that we know that Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh is in place, we...more
Coming on the heels of the U.S. Department of Labor recently issuing its final regulations clarifying the fluctuating workweek (FWW) method of overtime compensation under the FLSA, the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals just issued...more
In late 2019, Pennsylvania defected from the traditional use of the fluctuating workweek method used to calculate overtime rates for employees working fluctuating hours. Instead, in Chevalier v. General Nutrition Centers,...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Does Pennsylvania law permit the fluctuating workweek (“FWW”) method of paying overtime? The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has answered that question with a resounding “No, but…”...more
Q: I heard that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently issued a major ruling regarding overtime pay. What do I need to know? ...more
Members of the Baby Boom generation often remained in one job throughout their working lives. It is now more common for employers to receive résumés from millennials (born between 1981 – 1996) who have had numerous jobs...more
Every now and then a case comes along that rewards us class action nerds with an embarrassment of riches. Gammella v. P.F. Chang’s China Bistro, Inc., decided last week by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, is one such...more
Home health care aides working twenty-four hour shifts can be paid for as little as thirteen hours under certain conditions, according to a March ruling from the New York Court of Appeals in Andryeyeva v. New York Health...more
Get it right – mistaken belief was not disability related - In iForce Ltd v Wood an employee's mistaken belief that new working practices would worsen her disability did not make her written warning for refusing to follow...more
This episode looks at recent employment law developments that may make you go “hmmm”: a 4-day workweek, outright bans on mandatory arbitration and office gossip, hairstyle as a protected characteristic, and an update on the...more
The California Second District Court of Appeal recently rendered a decision with respect to “reporting time pay” that significantly impacts California employers who use on-call schedules. The Court held that employees need...more
In a ruling that will have a significant impact on the retail and restaurant industries, among others in California, the California Court of Appeal ruled that a retail employer’s call-in scheduling policy—in which employees...more
Seyfarth Synopsis: Traditionally, “report for work” has meant physically showing up at the jobsite, ready to work. ...more