Labor and Employment
With roughly 20 percent of state-level jurisdictions passing minimum wage laws in 2014, each establishing multiple increases over time, and recent changes to how minimum wage compliance is measured, Littler issued an examination of rule changes and the impact minimum wage increases may have on the compensation of some overtime-exempt employees, local minimum wage laws, and recommendations for managing minimum wage increases.
Now might be the time to take another look at those documents, lest the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission looks first.
The Indiana Supreme Court, reversing a lower court decision, has ruled that Indiana’s right-to-work law is constitutional. Signed by Governor […]
Potomac Electric Power Company (Pepco) in Maryland must pay a construction worker $21.7 million after he was electrocuted and paralyzed […]
When an unpaid intern on the set of Fox Searchlight’s “Black Swan” filed a lawsuit claiming wage and hour violations, […]
The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides eligible employees with 12 weeks of unpaid medical leave per year, but employers […]
In last week’s mid-term elections, 60 percent of Massachusetts voters approved a new measure requiring employers to provide sick leave […]
Plaintiffs’ lawyers remain eager to challenge various aspects of timekeeping practices that arise frequently in hospitals and other healthcare settings.
Defining the permissible and impermissible uses of big data in the employment arena may be determined by a lawsuit that claims LinkedIn sold its users’ employment history without their consent.
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