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Today, the U.S. Department of Labor finally announced its long-awaited changes to the regulations regarding overtime compensation. Effective January 1, 2020, the minimum salary required for most exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act will rise...By: Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

The Federal Trade Commission and the Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice are making clear that noncompete agreements embedded in any kind of transaction under their review will be closely scrutinized. Close examination of proposed...By: Goodwin

Upending recent precedent, the National Labor Relations Board, yesterday, proposed a rule that, if adopted, will exempt from the NLRB’s jurisdiction undergraduate and graduate students who perform services in connection with their college and...By: Arent Fox

The US Department of Labor (DOL) announced the long-awaited final overtime rule on Tuesday. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires employers to pay time-and-a-half rates to workers making less than a threshold amount for all hours beyond 40 per...By: Morgan Lewis

On September 24, 2019, the Department of Labor announced its final rule updating the salary threshold necessary to exempt certain employees from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s minimum wage and overtime requirements. While the final rule leaves in...By: Burr & Forman

In France, the Professional Future Law of September 5, 2018, amended the Employment Obligation of Disabled Workers with the aim of simplifying it and making it more effective. In addition, the Professional Future Law revised the legal regime for...By: Morgan Lewis

Nearly three years after employers scrambled to review and adjust worker salaries ahead of anticipated increases in the required weekly salary for exempt employees, only to have the new rule stayed at the last minute, the U.S. Department of Labor has...By: Sherman & Howard L.L.C.

The U.S. Department of Labor finally settled on the salary thresholds regarding overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act. $35,568 ($684 per week): the annual standard salary threshold for executive, administrative, and professional employees...By: Barley Snyder

“Some day, California’s going to fall into the ocean” usually refers to the San Andreas fault. Now it may refer to AB-5, and the future of the franchise industry in California. The California legislature has now passed AB-5, and Governor Newsom has...By: Fox Rothschild LLP

Negative employee attitudes, chronic complaining, insubordination and gossiping are bad for the workplace.  They can impact employee morale and productivity, and if spread outside of the organization, reflect very poorly on that company.  While...By: Cohen & Gresser LLP