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After much anticipation, the United States Department of Labor has issued a final overtime rule that will increase the overtime-exempt earning salary threshold under the FLSA. The rule will take effect on January 1, 2020. The DOL’s estimates indicate...By: Sands Anderson PC

Background to reasonable belief in the public interest - The public interest test was introduced as an additional requirement for whistleblowing protection in 2013. In order to be considered a protected disclosure, and benefit from protection under...By: Dentons

Effective January 1, 2020, an estimated 1.3 million workers may be newly eligible for overtime pay under the United States Department of Labor’s (“DOL”) final rule announced on Tuesday. The final rule updates the regulations issued under the Fair...By: Miles & Stockbridge P.C.

Are you an employer in New York State or New York City?  Did you comply with the new sexual harassment training law yet?  As previously covered by HRLegalist, on October 9, 2018, the State of New York imposed on both public and private employers,...By: Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP

On August 7, 2019, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) conducted a raid of seven Mississippi food processing plants, arresting 680 employees suspected of working without proper documentation. Since...By: Burr & Forman

• Cannabis businesses must comply with federal wage and hour law, a federal appeals court ruled, despite the fact they operate in a field still illegal under another federal law. The court said two wrongs don’t make a right. Just because you are...By: Fisher Phillips

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has increased the salary threshold for employees to be considered exempt from overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. As the first increase in 15 years, employees will now need to earn $684 per week...By: Hirschfeld Kraemer LLP

First things first, I’m sorry about the title; I couldn’t resist. The longer, alternate title would have been “Rest In Peace – the Past Performance Information Retrieval System Sleeps with the Fishes.” But that doesn’t have the same kind of obscure,...By: Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

Employers have been furiously working to prepare their EEO-1 Component 2 submissions by the September 30 deadline.  Some employers who underestimated the task have asked us whether the EEOC’s submission portal will remain open after September 30 in...By: Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

How can private equity firms identify and mitigate inherited liability risk from vulnerable portfolio companies? Ongoing big ticket regulatory fines coupled with high profile corporate veil cases indicate that private equity deal teams must remain...By: Latham & Watkins LLP