By Kelline R. Linton, Junior Associate. The Affordable Care Act’s employer mandate requires large businesses with 50 or more full-time employees to offer health insurance to their full-time employees. This mandate has been postponed until 2015 for large employers (100 or more employees), and 2016 for medium employers (50 […]
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By Linda H. Evans, Senior Associate. Each year the EEOC issues its yearly report on enforcement and litigation. The report is always a good way to assess the temperature of what’s going on in EEOC world. Among 2013’s highlights are the following: • Total number of charges received […]
By Kelline R. Linton, Junior Associate. In a recent case decided on January 27, the U.S. Supreme Court found that the time employees spent donning and doffing protective gear was “changing clothes” under 29 U.S.C. § 203(o). Section 203(o) permitted collective bargaining on whether time spent changing clothes would […]
By Linda H. Evans, Senior Associate. This winter many areas of the country have had more than the usual number of winter storms resulting in closed schools and businesses. How do closures impact wages for exempt employees who typically get a set amount on each paycheck, regardless of the […]
By Linda H. Evans, Senior Associate. A federal judge in Florida certified a nationwide collective action against Lowe’s Home Centers on January 10, 2014. The odd thing about this case is that it was brought by HR Managers who claimed they were misclassified as exempt from overtime. The plaintiff […]
By Linda H. Evans, Senior Associate. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) announced last week that it would not seek U.S. Supreme Court review of a pair of appeals court decisions striking down its rule requiring businesses to hang posters informing workers of their right to unionize. Since the […]
By Linda H. Evans, Senior Associate. On September 17, 2013, the Wage and Hour Division of the DOL announced a final rule extending the FLSA’s minimum wage and overtime protections to most of the nation’s direct care workers who provide home care assistance to elderly, disabled, injured, or ill […]
By Kelline R. Linton, Junior Associate. While the Obama administration has delayed the Affordable Care Act requirement that large employers provide health insurance to all employees, many of the 2013 and 2014 ACA requirements will still apply as scheduled. Beginning on January 1, 2014, numerous provisions of the […]
In Lopez v. Bombay Pizza Co., 2012 WL 5397192 (S.D. Tex., Nov. 5, 2012) the Court was faced with the issue of defining the scope of a conditionally certified class. In this case, a former cook at Bombay Pizza sued to collect on unpaid overtime wages under the Fair Labor […]
Employee productivity is directly impacted by family care issues. In fact, more employee productivity is spent on elder-care issues than on child-care issues.[ii] It is estimated that as the population continues to grow, most employees will be affected by elder-care issues during their career.[iii] As this trend continues, employers would […]