On December 22, 2014 a federal judge struck down a new provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) that would have entitled most home-care workers to minimum wage and overtime just ten days before that provision was to take effect, according to Bloomberg BNA. As it stands, the FLSA…
Being terminated from your job almost always comes with a huge amount of stress and emotion. There’s a lot to process, and people often want to do that processing very quickly in order to get back up and running. Every day, we see people who have lost their jobs and are understandably…
The excellent Ask A Manager blog recently responded to a reader question about whether it is legal for publications to not pay their volunteer writers. As always with legal questions, AAM addresses the underlying issues, but avoids offering legal advice. We’ve decided to expand on legal issues here. As readers…
This is the beginning of a series on the implications of today’s National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) decision that Northwestern’s football players, “are employees of the school and therefore entitled to hold an election to decide whether to unionize,” according to The Chicago Tribune. We’re going to start by focusing…
Have you been treated unfairly by your employer but feel like your claim is too small for anyone to care? Based on a recent case in Millville, New Jersey, it may be time to think again. People are sometimes reticent to approach a lawyer even when they know they’ve been…
President Obama issued an executive order last week that would expand the pool of workers eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). You may or may not already be familiar with the overtime portions of the FLSA; in case you aren’t, we will provide you with…