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Court challenge looms, but employers urged to prepare for new overtime rule

by Tammy Binford

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The Supreme Court rules daily-rate employees are entitled to overtime compensation

In a case from February, the U.S. Supreme Court issued an important decision regarding whether highly compensated employees paid on a daily-rate basis were entitled to overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards...

Mar 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

Newest forms of AI putting HR pros on notice: It’s a brave, new world

The buzz about ChatGPT has been swirling for a few months now. The artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot capable of composing answers to all kinds of questions effortlessly and instantly is being touted as the iPhone...

Mar 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California · New York · Texas · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

Pilot program offers improvement in H and L employment-based visa renewal process

A major improvement in U.S. immigration processing is on the horizon for employers. The U.S. State Department just announced a pilot program to once again offer visa renewals by mail without traveling to a U.S. consular...

Mar 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California · New York · Texas · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

NLRB rules overbroad employee severance agreements violate the NLRA

In a recent ruling, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) found an employer violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it offered furloughed employees a severance agreement that included overbroad...

Mar 31, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California · New York · Texas · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

You will never see this ad—Wanted: employees to do bare minimum

You can tell a lot about people’s attitude toward work by the phrases they use. For a long time, the workplace promoted what was popularly known as “the Puritan ethic”—success comes from keeping your nose to the...

Mar 28, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Shove at a bar after work leads to potential federal assault case

While at a bar at the U.S. embassy compound in Baghdad, Iraq, Sana Kappouta was shoved by a drunk coworker but wasn’t injured. After she reported the incident, her employer tried to transfer her to a different position...

Mar 28, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Police reform dodges a bullet

In this George Floyd era, the country at large is grappling with many areas in which police reform is needed, including use-of-force policies, disciplinary practices, overly technical legal impediments to holding errant...

Mar 28, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Please stay home: PAGA swallows paid sick leave

In 2003, California passed the Private Attorneys’ General Act (PAGA), which allows employees to file claims as a ‘proxy’ for the state to collect civil penalties. The Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act (HWHFA)...

Mar 28, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Dangers in a dubious discharge

One solid way to avoid liability for disability discrimination is showing the termination occurred before the employer was aware of any disability. That, in turn, may hinge upon when the termination decision was made and...

Mar 15, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Part and parcel, UPS worker delivers empty FMLA claim

A federal appeals court recently upheld dismissal of an employee’s claim that his employer interfered with his right to take FMLA leave. The court found that the worker wasn’t entitled to an indefinite, medically...

Mar 01, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · Great Lakes · Illinois · Indiana · Michigan · Ohio · Wisconsin · Mid-Atlantic · Delaware · Maryland · New Jersey · Pennsylvania · Virginia · Midsouth · Kentucky · North Carolina · South Carolina · Tennessee · West Virginia · Midwest · Arkansas · Kansas · Missouri · Oklahoma · Mountain West · Colorado · Idaho · Montana · New Mexico · Utah · Wyoming · New England · Connecticut · Maine · Massachusetts · New Hampshire · Rhode Island · Vermont · Southeast · Alabama · Florida · Georgia · Louisiana · Mississippi · Upper Midwest · Iowa · Minnesota · Nebraska · North Dakota · South Dakota · West · Alaska · Arizona · Hawaii · Nevada · Oregon · Washington

My former employee is sharing confidential information—Help!

As an employer, one of your worst fears may be that a disgruntled or entrepreneurial former employee may try to share your internal operations, documents, or trade secrets. What you can do to protect your business in...

Mar 01, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Beware of impersonators hijacking your company’s identity

Just when it seems consumers have caught on to one particular online scam or phishing expedition—think of the ubiquitous Nigerian prince email scam that first began making the rounds in the 1990s—a new one comes along...

Mar 01, 2023 · Employment Law Letter · California

Regulation by roulette

Do you beat on the walls of the status quo, urgent for change? Do you cry out to tear down the barriers to your vision of the future? Can you not wait until the hidebound and the conventional are replaced? Your time may...

Mar 01, 2023 · Federal Employment Law Insider