Regulation Proposed to Limit FLSA's "Companionship" Exemption
As we suspected, efforts to eviscerate the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(15) "companionship" exemption have now formally moved to the regulatory arena. The U.S. Labor Department has...
View ArticleClock Now Ticking On "Companionship", Live-In Domestic Restrictions
The U.S. Labor Department has officially published the proposed provisions that would drastically limit the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's exemptions for "companionship" workers and live-in...
View ArticleProponents "Can't Wait" For Demise of Companionship, Live-In Domestic...
UPDATE (03/10/12): The U.S. Labor Department has again extended the deadline for submissions. Comments must now be received by Wednesday, March 21,...
View ArticleProposed Rule Could Dictate Service Contractor Hires
Under regulations proposed by the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council ("FARC"), a federal contractor taking on a new service contract would be required to offer jobs to the qualified employees of...
View ArticleSenators Move To Preserve FLSA's "Companionship" Exemption
There have been further developments regarding the U.S. Department of Labor's proposed regulation that would drastically limit the Fair Labor Standard Act's Section 13(a)(15) "companionship" exemption....
View ArticleThe Post-Election Wage-Hour Landscape
Now that the election is behind us, employers should consider what they might anticipate in the field of wage-hour law, which is already one of the largest sources of employment-law claims. While the...
View ArticleInput Might Still Be Possible On Proposed "Companionship" Restrictions...
Readers will recall our earlier posts (accessible here) relating to the U.S. Labor Department's proposed regulatory revisions that would significantly limit the application of the federal Fair Labor...
View ArticleSenate Report Urges Compliance-Based Government-Contract Awards
The U.S. Senate's Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions has released a report concluding that there are "widespread labor law violations among major government contractors." The...
View ArticlePresident Seeks To Curtail FLSA "White Collar" Exemptions
President Obama has instructed the U.S. Labor Department to revise the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's so-called "white collar" exemptions in a "Presidential Memorandum" released on March 13. This...
View ArticleNovember Target For Proposed Exemption Changes
As we reported previously, in March President Obama directed the U.S. Labor Department to "modernize and streamline" its regulations governing the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(1)...
View ArticleProposed Federal-Contractor "Minimum Wage" Regulations Released (Updated 07...
The U.S. Labor Department has released its proposed regulations implementing Executive Order 13658, President Obama's directive to raise the minimum-wage rate for workers on federal contracts from...
View ArticleFLSA Exemptions And "Overtime Rights"
We continue to follow developments relating to President Obama's directive that the U.S. Labor Department "modernize and streamline" its regulations governing the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's...
View ArticleFLSA Exemptions And "Fighting Poverty"
We have written previously about President Obama's directive to change the requirements for who falls within the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(1) "white collar" exemptions for...
View ArticleInterim "Contractor Minimum Wage" Acquisition Rules To Be Released (Updated...
The Department of Defense, the General Services Administration, and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration have announced that they will soon publish interim Federal Acquisition Regulation...
View ArticleInteresting Comments From U.S. Labor Solicitor Smith
Solicitor of Labor M. Patricia Smith spoke at a December continuing-legal-education conference in Atlanta. Her remarks in a couple of areas were especially interesting.Coming "White Collar" Exemption...
View ArticleA Substantial Salary-Test Jump Is Likely
On January 28, the Economic Policy Instituteannounced that "noted economists and a former Secretary of Labor" had written to U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez to propose an increased salary...
View ArticleFLSA Exemption Changes: A Possible "Plan B" For Retailers
Expectations are that the U.S. Labor Department's proposed regulations re-defining the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's executive, administrative, professional, outside-sales, and derivative...
View ArticleProposed FLSA Exemption Changes Still In Limbo
Employers await with bated breath the release of the U.S. Labor Department's proposed new definitions for the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(1) executive, administrative,...
View ArticleFLSA Exemption Revisions Sent To OMB (Updated 05 08 15: Proposals To Be Out...
U.S. Secretary of Labor Tom Perez has announced that proposed new definitions for the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(1) executive, administrative, professional, outside-sales, and...
View Article"Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces" Provisions Proposed
The U.S. Labor Department, the Defense Department, the General Services Administration, and NASA have jointly published proposed requirements and related guidance under Executive Order 13673, the "Fair...
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