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On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (the DOL) issued a proposal to increase the salary threshold for employees to be classified as exempt from the overtime pay requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (the FLSA) pursuant to the...By: Locke Lord LLP

For businesses with 100 or more employees, now is a good time to begin reviewing internal systems and coordinating with vendors to collect employee pay information to submit to the EEOC....By: Locke Lord LLP

The U.S. Department of Labor’s new Wage and Hour Administrator Cheryl Stanton recently released her first series of opinion letters on various wage payment topics. Of interest to some employers was a letter asking about overtime status for paralegals...By: Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP

Did Nivea’s claims for its Skin Firming Hydration Body Lotion push the product into the category of a drug requiring approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA)?...By: Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Important deadlines concerning the new Massachusetts Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) law are approaching. In June 2019, the Massachusetts legislature passed legislation to delay the start of employer and employee contributions until Oct. 1, 2019...By: Holland & Knight LLP

The U.S. women’s soccer team celebrated their victory over the Netherlands at a victory parade in Lower Manhattan last week. Amid the champagne and confetti showers, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed into law two bills aimed at combating pay gaps in the...By: Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

Within the past two weeks, both California and New York have passed laws prohibiting employers from discriminating based upon hairstyle. Governor Gavin Newsom signed California’s “CROWN Act” (Create a Respectful and Open Workplace for Natural Hair)...By: Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP

On July 11, 2019, Governor Sununu signed S.B. 197 into law. S.B. 197 prohibits an employer from requiring an employee who makes 200% of the federal minimum wage ($14.50) to sign a non-compete agreement restricting the employee from working for...By: Seyfarth Shaw LLP

The issue of whether athletic referees are independent contractors has surfaced a few times in the last few years. Here, in Pennsylvania, the Pennsylvania Interscholastic Athletic Association (the PIAA) that engages these referees has agreed to...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Recognizing that, in some situations, a plan to develop or construct a facility or energy property may raise significant national security concerns, the IRS released Notice 2019-43 (which may be found here) on July 12, 2019, which provides that the...By: Foley & Lardner LLP