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Under the current U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) regulations, if certain conditions are met, an employer may pay an employee who works fluctuating hours a fixed salary for all hours worked and then an additional half-time for all hours over 40–a...By: White and Williams LLP

Risk Management Question - What steps can law firms take to guard against greeting e-card scams? The Issue - Winter is coming, and along with it, your employees may start receiving holiday e-cards on their work computers. Malicious e-cards are an...By: Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: As the future of work continues to take shape, labor unions are taking notice and adjusting their strategies and their focus in response. To the extent they haven’t already, companies both large and small should take heed and...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

Construction partner Laurie Stanziale and Litigation partner and host Rich Schoenstein discuss Construction and the Neighbors in the latest episode of Law Brief, Tarter Krinsky & Drogin’s podcast series. Laurie and Rich talk about what to do when...By: Tarter Krinsky & Drogin LLP

New California Law Creates Legal Test for Determining Who is an “Employee” - In the wake of Assembly Bill 5, employers will need to exercise additional care when determining whether to hire workers as employees or as independent contractors. Using...By: Best Best & Krieger LLP

Seyfarth Synopsis: The DOL’s ARB rejected an employee’s SOX retaliation claim where he inadvertently provided information to his employer and only “hinted” that he was filing a SOX-protected complaint. The ARB seems unwilling to accept retaliation...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

I may be a little old-school on this, but I still like to pick weeds in the yard. It's good exercise, makes the yard look nicer, and gives my brain a little down time. There's a particularly pernicious type of weed in our area known as goosegrass....By: Hudson Cook, LLP

Client issues often arrive like schools of fish – rapidly and in huge numbers. Sometimes this is the result of external events such as tariffs, shifts in the credit market, constraints on supply or falling demand. But sometimes there are no external...By: White and Williams LLP

Dean Foods, the largest milk company in the U.S., has filed for bankruptcy protection, a “fresh setback to a U.S. dairy industry struggling against declining U.S. milk consumption and rising competition.”  Industry experts have noted that the...By: Robins Kaplan LLP

On October 31, 2019, California’s First District Court of Appeal in Lauren O’Grady v. Merchant Exchange Productions, Inc. held that a "service charge" could be a "gratuity" under Labor Code Section 351, such that it would be required to be paid to...By: Davis Wright Tremaine LLP