Misclassification – Department of Labor Recovery
Today’s post comes from guest author Leonard Jernigan, from The Jernigan Law Firm in North Carolina. Employer fraud happens more than businesses would like folks to think, and Mr. Jernigan writes a...
View ArticleIncrease in Wage Theft Claims
Today’s blog post was written by guest author Leonard Jernigan from The Jernigan Law Firm in North Carolina. Firm associate Brody Ockander also brought The New York Times story to my attention that...
View ArticleOvertime and Minimum Protections Laws Upheld for Home Health Aides
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a federal circuit court’s decision upholding a rule by the U.S. Department of Labor that would extend overtime and minimum wage protections to home...
View ArticlePost-Injury Drug Test? OSHA Says Not So Fast
Workers who report an on-the-job injury may not be subject to mandatory drug testing if a new rule from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration that prohibits blanket post-injury drug tests...
View ArticleDepartment of Labor Weighs In on New Age of Salary Servitude for ‘Executives’
Most of the U.S. workforce has the right, provided by the Fair Labor Standards Act, to be paid overtime for working more than 40 hours in a week. Before the federal government set rules for overtime,...
View ArticleFailure of Weil nomination heralds more of the same for federal involvement...
Democratic Senators Joe Manchin, West Virginia, joined Kyrsten Sinema and Mark Kelley, Arizona, and 50 Republicans to torpedo the nomination of Professor David Weil to the head of the Department of...
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