The Labor Department has issued an opinion letter on whether employee expense reimbursements must be included in a regular rate of pay calculation.

The Department of Labor has proposed phasing out a program that allows payment of “subminimum wages” to individuals with disabilities. Comments are due by January 17, 2025, the last business day during the Biden Administration.

A federal district court has vacated the Biden Administration’s rule increasing the minimum salary level to classify a worker as an exempt executive, administrative, or professional employee.

Limited enforcement data reported by the Labor Department under the Fair Labor Standards Act show that DOL recovery of back wages for violations has dropped to its lowest level in a decade.

In a ruling that has implications for pending legal challenges to Biden Administration revisions to the FLSA’s white collar overtime exemption regulations, the appeals court has ruled the Department of Labor has authority to impose a salary level tes

The federal appeals court has thrown out the Biden Administration’s 2021 rule governing how tipped employees should be paid, finding that the rule is contrary to the statutory language of the Fair Labor Standards Act.

The new minimum weekly salary of $844 for a white-collar employee to qualify for exemption from federal overtime coverage has taken effect except for employees of the state of Texas, based on a federal court’s preliminary injunction.

A recent lawsuit filed by the Labor Department against an auto manufacturer and its supplier and the supplier’s staffing company suggests a return to the controversial “fissured workplace” theory, putting employers on notice that the agency is closel

Our updated Talking Points are designed to educate your managers and supervisors on the Department of Labor’s 2024 revisions to its “white collar” overtime regulations, and to help them answer questions they may receive about the new requirements.

MEMBER FEEDBACK REQUESTED. CWC recently held a Members Only web workshop on the Labor Department’s new white collar overtime regulations, which are currently scheduled to go into effect beginning on July 1, 2024. Our memo summarizes a number of compl

CWC WEB WORKSHOP on May 7, 2024. The Biden Administration’s Labor Department has issued revised regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act that will make thousands of additional salaried white collar workers eligible for overtime pay.

The Biden Department of Labor’s new independent contractor rule for worker classification determinations under the FLSA went into effect as scheduled on March 11, 2024, although it is still subject to several legal challenges.

Limited enforcement data reported recently by the Labor Department under the Family and Medical Leave and Fair Labor Standards Acts covering fiscal year 2023 do not show much of a change from FY 2022.

Reversing a four-year downward trend, employment-related lawsuits filed in federal court increased by 9% last year, led by a 21% increase in suits filed under the Americans with Disabilities Act.

The Labor Department has reinstated a controversial interpretation of the test for determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act that raises the stakes for an employer that makes the wrong

Under federal law and implementing regulations issued by the Labor Department, a salaried executive, administrative, or professional employee must be paid a minimum salary to be considered exempt from overtime. The federal threshold is a floor, howev

Just four years after the Labor Department revised its regulations to make many more white collar workers eligible for overtime pay, DOL is proposing to do so again. CWC’s comments on the proposal question its need, as well as whether it exceeds DOL’

MEMBER FEEDBACK REQUESTED. The Biden Administration’s Department of Labor has published its long-expected proposal to amend the “white collar” regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act in order to extend overtime eligibility to numerous salaried

For the second time, a federal trial court in Texas has rejected an attempt by the restaurant industry to block enforcement of revised “tip credit” regulations issued by the Biden Administration’s Labor Department.

The appeals court has rejected the often plaintiff-friendly “conditional certification” that many courts grant in allowing a collective action under the Fair Labor Standards Act to proceed. Instead, the court has adopted a standard that requires lead

New guidance issued by the Labor Department summarizes the broad provisions of a law enacted by Congress late last year that expands workplace protection for employees to express milk.

A federal appeals court has ruled that a lawsuit challenging revised “tip” regulations issued by the Labor Department in 2021 should get another look from the trial court in determining whether the regulations should be enjoined.

A federal appeals court has rejected a claim by a group of salaried employees that an employer’s application of a productivity incentive system that could result in deductions from paid time off was not permitted under the Fair Labor Standards Act.

Despite the fact that a worker made more than $200,000 a year, the Supreme Court has ruled that he was entitled to overtime pay because his employer could not show that it complied with the Labor Department’s so-called “salary basis” test under the F

The Labor Department reports that the number of administrative complaints it closed in fiscal year 2022 alleging overtime and minimum wage violations under the Fair Labor Standards Act declined for the 10th straight year.