The Obama Administration may go down in history as the Administration of Enforcement: investigations of worker misclassification and wage and hour issues are way up. Now we’re seeing it also applies to the civil rights arena. Last year was a record-setting year for the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. It received more charges than ever, resolved [...]
As published in the August 8, 2011 CT Law Tribune
The federal minimum wage remains at $7.25 per hour, but many states and some localities have higher minimum wage requirements. Seven states – Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Montana, Ohio, Oregon, Vermont, and Washington – are ringing in the New Year with minimum wage increases. Even some cities are jumping on this bandwagon. A San Francisco ordinance [...]
Reproduced with permission from Daily Labor Report, 211 DLR I-1, 11/01/2011. Copyright 2011 by The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc. (800-372-1033) http://www.bna.com
Although law firms are a unique type of workplace in many respects, they nevertheless remain a workplace that is subject to federal and state labor and employment laws. In this BNA Insights article, Brody and Associates attorneys Robert Brody and Allison Smith look at employment-related legal issues that can arise at law firms and offer guidance for attorney employers looking to avoid litigation.
There is now a program under which employers can reclassify their independent contractors as employees and avoid a majority of the fees and penalties associated with doing so. Employers now have the chance to voluntarily change their pay practices to comply with the law, and start out with a clean slate. The Internal Revenue Service [...]