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DOL Overtime Rules: This Time, We Have Something to Report

Kollman & Saucier

09/05/2017

Barely more than 24 hours after we published a blog telling you there was little new to report on the Department of Labor's proposed changes to overtime regulations, something big happened: a federal judge in Texas struck the proposed rules down. Granting summary judgment to more than 55 business groups that challenged the rule, Judge Amos Mazzant ruled that the drastic increase in the salary required to be exempt -- from $23,660 to $47,476 - was...

Darrell VanDeusen

08/30/2017

Agency Activity, Wage & Hour

You may recall that I blogged on the stalled DOL overtime rules a month or so ago, with the Trump DOL repeatedly asking for extensions to file a brief in the Fifth Circuit. In that brief, administration lawyers told the Fifth Circuit that the DOL intends to revise the overtime rule and asked the court to affirm the DOL’s right to use salary levels to determine eligibility for overtime pay. DOL lawyers stated that the Department will not...

Kollman & Saucier

08/16/2017

Wage & Hour

Discussions about the roles and duties of both police officers and electronic devices have consumed much of our collective attention these days. Thus, it seemed particularly resonant to explore the interaction between the two, as the Seventh Circuit did recently in Allen v. City of Chicago. No. 16-1029 (7th Cir. Aug. 3, 2017). Specifically, what overtime obligations does an employer have when it instructs its workforce not to use their...

Darrell VanDeusen

07/03/2017

Agency Activity, State Law, Wage & Hour

Here’s a brief update on things Wage and Hour: Maryland Minimum Wage Rates Continuing the step increase in Maryland’s minimum wage passed by the General Assembly a few years ago, on July 1, the state minimum wage increased to $9.25/hour. The final planned increase to $10.10/hour will occur on July 1, 2018.. July 1 also saw an increase in the minimum wage required to be paid in Montgomery County to $11.50/hour. Prince George’s County...

Darrell VanDeusen

05/05/2017

Legislative Developments, Wage & Hour

Comp-time is a common practice in the public sector and has been regularly used by public sector employees since the FLSA was amended in 1985. It is available in the private sector too, but the requirements in place for an employer to do it right make it nearly impossible to use. Which is why private sector employers who want to follow the law don’t often try to use it. An effort is taking place in Congress to amend the FLSA. The Working...

Kollman & Saucier

11/23/2016

Agency Activity, Legislative Developments, Wage & Hour

Employers received something to be thankful for late yesterday afternoon, when a federal judge in Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the Obama Administration’s overtime rules that were scheduled to take effect on December 1. With the Trump Administration set to take office on January 20, 2017, there is a significant chance the new rules will never take effect. A brief FLSA refresher: employers are ordinarily required to pay...

Kollman & Saucier

10/14/2016

Wage & Hour

“Take me out to the ballgame Take me out with the crowd Buy me some peanuts and Cracker Jacks I don’t care if I never get back…” Since 1908 (incidentally, the last year a certain Chicago team won the World Series), baseball fans have regularly sung this anthem as part of the stadium experience. What nobody could have anticipated at the time, however, was how to treat the employees who sell those peanuts, Cracker Jacks, and team-related...

Kollman & Saucier

09/28/2016

Agency Activity, Labor Law, Wage & Hour

Unless you are a contestant who just returned from participating in the 33rd season of Survivor: Millenials v. Gen X (yes, I still watch this show -- Every. Single. Episode.), you have undoubtedly heard about the Wells Fargo credit card scandal. Nearly 5300 employees were fired after it was uncovered that millions and millions of credit card accounts were fraudulently opened without customer permission because of intense corporate pressure to meet...

Kollman & Saucier

06/23/2016

Public Sector Employment Law, Virginia Employment Law, Wage & Hour

In a case with potentially far-reaching implications for fire departments in Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and West Virginia, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit ruled that Fairfax County, Virginia fire captains are non-exempt employees entitled to overtime compensation. Morrison v. County of Fairfax, No. 14-2308 (June 21, 2016). The Court reversed a grant of summary judgment in favor of the County and granted summary...

Kollman & Saucier

05/27/2016

Wage & Hour

If an employer knows, or has reason to know, that an employee is working overtime, that overtime must be paid. In Craig v. Bridges Bros. Trucking LLC, No. 15-3396 (6th Cir. May 19, 2016), the Sixth Circuit concluded that a bookkeeper was able to pursue her Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime pay claim because she presented sufficient evidence her employer should have known she was working more than 40 hours in a work week. The Sixth Circuit...

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