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The U.S. Department of Labor Proposes New Overtime Eligibility Rule

Kollman & Saucier

09/08/2023

FLSA Exemptions, Legal Developments, Wage & Hour

Federal overtime pay provisions are part of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Unless exempt, employees covered by the FLSA must be paid at a time-and-a-half rate for time worked over 40 hours in a work week. Under current law, workers who are salaried, earn at least $35,568 annually ($684 per week), and work in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity are exempt, meaning they are not entitled to overtime pay. The...

Kollman & Saucier

09/06/2023

ADA, Disability & Leave, EEOC, Reasonable Accommodations/Undue Burden

Federal Circuits are split over whether the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) requires employers to accommodate commuting or transportation difficulties outside the work environment. In late July 2023, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit decided a case applying the ADA to an employee who requested a schedule change because his cataracts made it difficult to commute safely at night. The Seventh Circuit concluded the ADA might...

Peter Saucier

09/01/2023

Maryland Law, Whistleblowers

A Radiation Therapist in the Oncology treatment operation at Mercy Hospital violated rules requiring that she obtain signed patient waivers at the same time that her overall performance was unsatisfactory. Supervising physicians and co-workers cataloged a number of the Therapist’s short-fallings. A key supervising physician described to investigators at Mercy incidents of “poor job performance and altercations with co-workers.” Romeka v....

Mathew Moldawer

08/30/2023

Employment Discrimination, Hiring Process, Immigration, National Origin

SpaceX, Elon Musk’s venture that designs, manufactures, and launches rockets and spacecraft, faces a lawsuit filed by the Department of Justice alleging discriminatory hiring practices against refugees and asylees. The complaint alleges SpaceX, under the guise of export laws and regulations including the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR) and Export Administration Regulations (EAR), used discriminatory hiring practices in...

Mathew Moldawer

08/29/2023

Labor Law, NLRB, Union Activity

The NLRB’s democratic majority struck a big win for unions by reviving the precedent set in the 1949 NLRB decision, In re Joy Silk Mills, Inc., 85 N.L.R.B. 1263 (1949). Using Cemex Construction Materials Pacific, LLC as their torpedo, the NLRB has inflicted a blow to employers facing unionization efforts. The employees at issue were approximately 366 ready-mix cement truck drivers and driver trainers. The drivers and trainers showed support...

Darrell VanDeusen

08/28/2023

Employment Discrimination, Sex Discrimination

Since July 2, 1965, Title VII has made it illegal for an employer “to fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his [or her] compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment, because of such individual’s race, color, religion, sex, or national origin.” 42 U.S.C. § 2000e-2(a)(1). Nowhere does the law require that the discrimination be an...

Mathew Moldawer

08/20/2023

DOL Opinion Letters, OSHA, Workplace Safety

The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) released an interpretation letter that addresses when employers are required by OSHA rules to list injuries, illnesses, and deaths caused by violent acts at work on their OSHA logs. Under OSHA standards, employers are required to keep a record of serious work-related injuries and illnesses. 29 C.F.R. 1904.5(a) provides that an injury or illness must be considered work-related if any event...

Mathew Moldawer

08/17/2023

First Amendment Protections, Labor Law, NLRB

Since the decision in Babcock v. Wilcox Co., 77 NLRB 577 (1948), the NLRB has permitted captive audience meetings. Under the captive audience doctrine and Section 8(c) of the NLRA, employers may hold mandatory employee meetings and speak to their employees about unionization so long as the employer does not threaten, punish, or promise benefits to the employees. Captive audience meetings are one of the few remaining arrows in management’s quiver...

Kollman & Saucier

08/10/2023

Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

In its latest effort to never make a decision too soon, this week, on August 7, 2023, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) released proposed rules/regulations on how to implement the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). The PWFA was passed by Congress in March 2023 and became effective on June 27, 2023, 180 days after President Biden signed the Act. The PWFA creates new requirements for employers of 15 or more employees (the same...

Kollman & Saucier

08/07/2023

Firm News

Darrell VanDeusen’s treatise on the Family and Medical Leave Act is now available through LexisNexis as a standalone reference book. It is available both in hard copy and as an eBook. This link will take you to the Lexis store. Darrell’s work on the FMLA and Wage and Hour Law will continue to be available as a part of LEXIS’s Labor and Employment Law multi-volume series as well, and of course on the LEXIS research...

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The U.S. Department of Labor Proposes New Overtime Eligibility Rule

ADA May Require Reasonable Accommodations Related To Work Commutes

WHISTLE BLOWERS ON THE VERGE OF TERMINATION BEAR A HEAVY BURDEN

Discrimination Accusations by DOJ Rocket SpaceX to Spotlight…Yet again

And So The Pendulum Swings: NLRB Revives Joy Silk From The Ashes

Fifth Circuit: Discrimination More Than “Ultimate Employment Decisions”

OSHA Provides Guidance on Reporting Injuries from Violent Acts at the Workplace

‘Captive Audience’ Memo from NLRB General Counsel Survives First Legal Battle

EEOC Has Released Proposed Regulations Regarding the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act

New FMLA Treatise Available

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