By: Sharon Gold
In September, 21 states and numerous business groups sued the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in a Texas Federal Court attacking the DOL’s Final Rule that raised the salary minimum for workers to be exempt from overtime requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The states filed a motion for preliminary injunction ...
Stop the presses? Maybe! A federal judge in Texas issued an injunction which temporarily halted the enforcement of the new FLSA overtime regulations. That means that employees properly classified as exempt under the current regulations (i.e., who satisfy BOTH the salary and duties tests) but whose salary did not reach the $47,476 threshold ...
The U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has published a revised version of Form I-9, which employers can start using now. The last day employers may use the old Form I-9 (with a revision date of 03/08/13 N) is January 21, 2017. The new Form I-9 is meant to be more user friendly, with an emphasis on decreasing technical errors. The new form may also ...
On July 12th I posted a report on this blog about the U.S. Department of Labor’s “persuader rule” that was set to go into effect on July 1st. This rule would have required employers and their labor consultants—including employers’ attorneys—to file reports with the DOL disclosing in a public record the work the ...
Max Bridges, Associate in the Firm's Natural Resources & Environmental Service Team, wrote an article that was published in the fall edition of the Kentucky Rural Water Association's Waterproof Magazine. The article, "EPA's Muddy 'Waters of the U.S.' Rule," describes the history of the Clean Water Act with regard to the "waters of the United ...
The City of Florence (“Florence” or “the City”) recently entered into a proposed consent decree, pending court approval, to resolve a discrimination lawsuit the Justice Department filed regarding two City female police officers. The lawsuit, filed last month, alleges both officers were discriminated ...