Insight and Commentary on Wage and Hour Law Developments Affecting Employers
As we mentioned earlier this week, I was recently interviewed on our firm’s new video program, Employment Law This Week. The show has now released “bonus footage” from that episode – see below.
I elaborate on some of the reasons behind this year’s sharp increase in federal wage-and-hour suits: worker-friendly rules, increased publicity…
An NLRB Administrative Law Judge found that an employee who instituted a wage-hour class action lawsuit engaged in concerted activity with his co-workers, even if none of those co-workers were aware of the suit.
Continue Reading Filing a Wage and Hour Class Action is Protected by the National Labor Relations Act
A CEO’s “operational control” over stores leads to individual liability under the FLSA.
Continue Reading Supreme Court Declines to Review CEO’s Personal Liability
“Wage Hour” “Affordable Care Act” “Minimum Wage”…
Continue Reading Avoiding Wage & Hour Liability in 2014
By: Kara M. Maciel
The following is a selection from the Firm’s October Take 5 Views You Can Use which discusses recent developments in wage hour law.
Many restaurants include automatic gratuities on the checks of guests with large parties to ensure that servers…
The prohibition against private settlements of FLSA claims was scrutinized again last week, when U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York held that parties could voluntarily dismiss an FLSA lawsuit without obtaining approval of the settlement agreement from the court. Picerni v. Bilingual SEIT & Preschool Inc. …
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