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In September 2019, the New Jersey Division of Rights (“DCR”) issued enforcement guidance (“Guidance”) clarifying and explaining how the DCR applies the state’s Law Against Discrimination (“LAD”) to discrimination based on hairstyles, particularly...By: Epstein Becker & Green

On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued its highly anticipated final rule regarding amendments to the overtime exemption criteria for the administrative, executive, and professional (“EAP”) exemptions under the Fair Labor...By: Epstein Becker & Green

The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) recently issued an opinion letter regarding the designation of FMLA leave in the context of employees covered by collective bargaining agreements (“CBA”) with a union. This opinion letter...By: Epstein Becker & Green

A Trending News interview from Employment Law This Week®, featuring attorney Paul DeCamp, Member of the Firm: On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule increasing the annual salary threshold for overtime pay to $35,568...By: Epstein Becker & Green

In 2017 and 2018, Illinois lawmakers tried twice to close the gender pay gap by prohibiting employers from seeking information about an applicant’s salary history and expanding existing pay equity protections. Both attempts were vetoed by former...By: Epstein Becker & Green

California recently enacted an emergency amendment (SB 778) to California Government Code Section 12950.1, extending the deadline for California employers to comply with the state’s new anti-harassment training mandate. Under Section 12950.1, the...By: Epstein Becker & Green

What is considered compensable travel time pursuant to the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) is not always clear or intuitive to employers, even for those who usually have a good handle on wage and hour laws. This blog post hopefully will simplify...By: Epstein Becker & Green

In the fall of 2016, before the Obama administration increases to the minimum salary were set to go into effect (spoiler alert – they didn’t!), we wrote in this space about the challenges facing employers in addressing those expected changes:...By: Epstein Becker & Green

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