Whoa, Nelly! It's a stampede! Continue Reading ›
As we welcome 2025, here are 10 must-read Constangy bulletins and blog posts from 2024, highlighting insights that guided our readers through important legal developments, workplace issues, and the challenges in cybersecurity and data privacy. Continue Reading ›
The times, they are a'changin'. Continue Reading ›
Don't be this employer. (Allegedly.) Continue Reading ›
How much do you know about this burning issue? Continue Reading ›
The players say, “No thanks.” Continue Reading ›
We gotcher employment law news right here. Continue Reading ›
With some help from Charles Dickens. Continue Reading ›
Will Congress go for it? Continue Reading ›
I am pumped! Are you? Continue Reading ›
Bad news, but at least employers know where they stand. Continue Reading ›
In other words, which presidents can we -- ahem -- blame? Continue Reading ›
The USDOL has issued a handy little guide. Continue Reading ›
Booze, wage-hour, workers' comp . . . we have it all! Continue Reading ›
Minimum wage, unions, right to work, and legal weed. Continue Reading ›
This would be a great law school problem. Continue Reading ›
Second of two on the FLSA. Continue Reading ›
Next week: Overtime! Continue Reading ›
Are customers who use self-checkout entitled to be paid for it? Continue Reading ›
Idle speculation as employers await the actual guidance. Continue Reading ›
Happy days are here again! Continue Reading ›
Miss Manners should stick to writing about ice cream forks. Continue Reading ›
Before the coming crackdown. Continue Reading ›
He'll be sworn in tonight. Continue Reading ›
And that's not all! Continue Reading ›
And more! Continue Reading ›
Tougher EEOC and OFCCP, a legal challenge at NLRB, and more. Continue Reading ›
He's not letting the grass grow under his feet. Continue Reading ›
Predictions from our attorneys in the practice areas that affect employers. Continue Reading ›
Employers, proceed with caution. Continue Reading ›
It's official! (Well, close enough.) Continue Reading ›
We're back in business, baby! (Sorta.) Continue Reading ›
"Let's turn over -- a new leaf." Continue Reading ›
All the holiday party information that's fit to print, as we enter this most dangerous season for employers. Continue Reading ›
"It could have been worse" edition. Continue Reading ›
The new salary thresholds will take effect on January 1. Continue Reading ›
On a party-line vote. Continue Reading ›
More to come, but here's a peek. Continue Reading ›
HR people, you know what I'm talking about. Continue Reading ›
Building on last year's Supreme Court decision in Epic Systems. Continue Reading ›
How can I sue thee? Let me count the ways. Continue Reading ›
Happy holiday weekend! Continue Reading ›
Not much of a showdown. Continue Reading ›
How's your employment law history knowledge? Continue Reading ›
It's spring, and a young person's fancy turns to . . . Continue Reading ›
About time! Continue Reading ›
Paid leave law and wage laws should take effect today. Continue Reading ›
The proposed regs were published in this morning's Federal Register. Continue Reading ›
And happy St. Patrick's Day weekend! Continue Reading ›
The salary threshold would be $35,308. Continue Reading ›
An increase to $15 will be phased in over five years. Continue Reading ›
The first step has been taken! Continue Reading ›
Here's a summary of what you may have missed over the holiday break. Continue Reading ›
More weed, and more money! Continue Reading ›
At the federal level, anyway. Continue Reading ›
Yes, that is possible. Continue Reading ›
Let your voice be heard! Continue Reading ›
Two states and D.C., plus a number of local governments, will increase their minimum wages on July 1. Continue Reading ›
It's all pretty good news for employers. Continue Reading ›
Of course he does! Continue Reading ›
Remember the 2016 Overtime Rule? They sued over that? Continue Reading ›
Are you in the know? Continue Reading ›
I hope everyone's holidays were happy. While I was out . . . Continue Reading ›
My apologies to Clement Clarke Moore. Happy holidays! Continue Reading ›
What are you grateful for this year? Here is my list. Continue Reading ›
How much do you know about an employer’s reasonable accommodation obligations under the law(s)? Take this quiz and find out!
Question 1: Which of the following federal employment laws require reasonable
accommodation, either by their terms or as courts have interpreted them over the years?
A. The Americans with Disabilities Act
B. The Family and Medical Leave Act
C. Title VII-religion
D. The Nursing Mothers Act
E. The Pregnancy Discrimination Act
F. All of the above
G. A, C, D, and E
ANSWER: G. The FMLA does not require reasonable accommodation, but all of these other laws do. And there is some overlap between the FMLA and pregnancy or disability accommodation because leave for pregnancy or disability can be a form of reasonable accommodation. Continue Reading ›
NOTE FROM ROBIN: I have bad news and good news. The bad news is that this is the last post from the Affirmative Action and OFCCP Compliance Practice Group that will appear on Employment & Labor Insider. The good news is that the group is starting its own blog, Affirmative Action Edition, in late October. We will let you know as soon as it’s up and running. Thanks very much to Cara Crotty and her team for the excellent guest posts they have contributed over the past year. We will miss you, but we can’t wait to subscribe to and read your new blog!
On September 15, the U.S. Department of Labor announced the 2018 minimum wage rates for covered federal contractors and subcontractors. Beginning January 1, 2018, federal contractors covered by these requirements will be required to pay a minimum wage of $10.35 an hour. The minimum cash wage for tipped workers will increase to $7.25 an hour.
The current minimum wage for federal contractors is $10.20 an hour, and the current minimum cash wage for tipped workers is $6.80 an hour.
These increases are required by an Executive Order issued by President Obama in February 2014, which mandates that the DOL raise the hourly minimum wage paid by certain federal contractors every year based on inflation. The Executive Order also specifies that the minimum cash wage for tipped workers must increase by 95 cents per year until it reaches 70 percent of the minimum wage paid to other hourly workers under the Executive Order. This requirement was met with the 2017 wage increase. Continue Reading ›
Yesterday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted the unopposed motion of
the U.S. Department of Labor to dismiss as moot the appeal in the “overtime case” of Nevada v. U.S. Department of Labor. The Fifth Circuit order brings that litigation to an end.
The DOL is expected to begin a new rulemaking process and is expected to propose increasing the salary thresholds for the executive, administrative, and (some) professional exemptions to the overtime requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act — but not by nearly as much as they would have been increased under the Obama Administration rule that has been struck down. Continue Reading ›
Bloomberg BNA reported Friday evening that President Trump has nominated Cheryl Stanton of South Carolina as Administrator of the Wage Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor. Ms. Stanton is currently executive director of the S.C. Department of Employment and Workforce, which administers unemployment compensation for the state. She has been a shareholder with the management-side employment firm Ogletree Deakins twice, separated by a period in which she was the principal White House liaison to the U.S. Department of Labor, the National Labor Relations Board, and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission under former President George W. Bush. She is a 1994 graduate of Williams College, and a 1997 graduate of the University of Chicago School of Law. According to the Trump White House, she clerked for Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito when he was on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit.
Lots going on in the wage-hour area! The USDOL filed a motion to dismiss as moot its appeal of the preliminary injunction blocking the Obama-era overtime rule. Continue Reading ›
I’m reading the decision as we speak, and we’ll be back soon with analysis from our Wage and Hour gurus, Jim
Coleman and Ellen Kearns. But meanwhile, here is the Opinion and Order from U.S. District Court Judge Amos Mazzant, and here is the Judgment.
The judge granted a motion for summary judgment filed by the business plaintiffs, a group led by the Plano (TX) Chamber of Commerce.
You may recall that Judge Mazzant’s preliminary injunction, issued last November, is on appeal to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.
Image Credit: From flickr, Creative Commons license, by State Farm Insurance. Continue Reading ›
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