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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on Sept. 24, 2019, issued its final overtime rule as it relates to the salary amount that employees must be paid in order to meet the salary basis requirements for exemption from overtime pay. (See Holland &...By: Holland & Knight LLP

A few years ago, I represented a process piping subcontractor in a claim against the general contractor and the owner of a coal fired power plant in Massachusetts. While the case was unique and interesting in a number of ways, some of which may be...By: Pierce Atwood LLP

The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e - newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for April 2018. Please see full Publication below for more...By: Hogan Lovells

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

Pursuant to 29 C.F.R. § 1910.134(f) employees are required to be fit tested prior to wearing tight-fitting respirators and the fit test administered must be using an OSHA-accepted fit test protocol. Appendix A to § 1910.134 outlines the procedures...By: Jackson Lewis P.C.

The labor movement sent a powerful and potentially revolutionary signal to the tech industry this past week on September 24: contract employees of HCL Technologies, working under a renewable contract with Google, voted to unionize for better...By: Kelley Drye & Warren LLP

On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of the Treasury (“Treasury”) published two proposed rules (together, the “Proposed Rules”) to implement the remaining provisions of the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act of 2018 (“FIRRMA”),...By: K&L Gates LLP

Grape Stock Supplier Failed to Rehire a Class of Workers After They Complained of Unequal Treatment, Federal Agency Charges - FRESNO, CALIF. - Sunridge Nurseries, Inc., a Bakersfield-based company specializing in grape stock, violated federal law...By: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its long-awaited Final Rule stating that all employees who make less than $684 a week, or $35,568 per year, must earn overtime pay. This new requirement replaces the current threshold of $465 per week, or...By: Akerman LLP - HR Defense

The U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) has just released, after much anticipation, final updates to the regulations that define which white-collar workers are exempt from the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”)....By: Ropes & Gray LLP