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For the past four-plus years, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) has actively pursued revisions to the compensation requirements for the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime requirement....By: Epstein Becker & Green

On September 10, 2019, the Appellate Division of the New York Supreme Court for the First Department ruled in Vega v. CM & Associates Construction Management, LLC that “manual workers” who receive full pay but are paid “late” in violation of the...By: Epstein Becker & Green

On September 16, 2019, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice (“DOJ”) released their combined Hart-Scott-Rodino Annual Report (“Report”) for fiscal year 2018 (covering the time period of October...By: Epstein Becker & Green

There may soon be a fair number of big-rig trucks for sale in California, as well as computers, desks, and other material investments of persons who determine that they may no longer offer their services as independent contractors and must shut down...By: Epstein Becker & Green

A Trending News interview from Employment Law This Week®, featuring attorney Robert O’Hara, Member of the Firm: The EEOC has announced it will not renew the pay data collection requirement moving forward. The agency underestimated the compliance...By: Epstein Becker & Green

When submitting a Hart-Scott-Rodino (“HSR”) Premerger Notification and Report Form and documentary attachments, parties are required to include what are known as “4(c) documents” and “4(d) documents.” Under the HSR requirements, 4(c) documents are...By: Epstein Becker & Green

This Employment Law This Week® Monthly Rundown discusses the most important developments for employers heading into September 2019. The episode includes: 1. DOJ Appeals Ruling on Pay Data Collection There has been more pushback around EEO-1 federal...By: Epstein Becker & Green

As summer winds down, the challenges impacting health care employers in 2019 continue to heat up. These challenges include ongoing developments regarding marijuana legalization, employee resistance to vaccination mandates, workplace violence...By: Epstein Becker & Green

A Trending News interview from Employment Law This Week®, featuring attorney Maxine Neuhauser: On August 6, 2019, New Jersey’s Acting Governor Sheila Oliver signed a sweeping “wage theft” bill into law, toughening penalties for failure to pay wages...By: Epstein Becker & Green

Multinational employers: Employee handbooks are not “one size fits all,” and even #MeToo must be handled differently across borders. For example, anti-fraternization policies might work in the U.S., but the same policies are viewed as a violation of...By: Epstein Becker & Green