Two of my favorite employment law bloggers, Jon Hyman at the Ohio Employer’s Law Blog, and Daniel Schwartz at the Connecticut Employment Law Blog, have weighed in on the following question, first posed by Walter Olson at Overlawyered:
If I could press a button and instantly vaporize one sector of employment law….
Florida’s minimum wage will increase 6 cents to $7.31 per hour tomorrow, June 1, 2011. Tipped employees (those employees who are eligible for the tip credit) will also see an increase of 6 cents, to $4.29 per hour. The increase, announced by the Agency for Workforce Innovation earlier this month, is described in detail in
The Department of Labor announced yesterday in a press release that it has launched its first application for smartphones — a timesheet app to “help employees independently track the hours they work and determine the wages they are owed.” Yes, that’s right. The DOL created an iPhone app that allows employees to track their hours
As we’ve mentioned here before, there has been proliferation of FLSA wage cases filed in the last few years, particularly in the Florida district courts. In fact, the volume of FLSA claims has nearly tripled in the past 10 years. According to updated federal statistics, over 5,500 FLSA lawsuits were filed nationwide between March
The Department of Labor recently issued a fact sheet on the break time requirement nursing mothers, which I discussed in a previous post. As a brief review, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act included a provision amending the Fair Labor Standards Act to require employers to
"provide reasonable break time for an employee to express breast
As part of the recently enacted Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (“PPACA”), the Fair Labor Standards Act has been amended to require breaks for nursing mothers. Effective immediately, employers must now provide “reasonable” breaks for nursing mothers to breastfeed or express breast milk. The amendment does not define “reasonable,” nor does it specify the
The Employment Law Practice Group is pleased to provide the February 2010 edition of the Employment Law Update, which features the following articles:
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