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Much-needed and decisive enforcement agency action triggers lawsuits by corporate interests
April 29th, 2024
Based on longstanding statutory authority, the Federal Trade Commission Act, the Federal Trade Commission (“FTC”) just issued a regulation that prohibits noncompete “agreements” regarding all employees – including senior executives. This tr…
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DOL seeks to expand the right to overtime pay significantly
September 5th, 2023
On the eve of the Labor Day weekend, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued a proposed rule that – if adopted – will dramatically increase the number of people who have the right to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLS…
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DOL’s political leadership continues to impede enforcement and undermine agency credibility
November 1st, 2020
The head of the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”), who is the son of former United States Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, has pushed the agency in a decidedly different direction since being appointed Secretary of Labor. Under Secre…
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Politicized Supreme Court, by a slim majority, again sides with corporations
May 1st, 2018
By a 5-4 margin, the United States Supreme Court opted to deviate from over 70 years of clearly established legal precedent to make it more difficult to hold employers accountable for wage theft. In that case, Encino Motocars, LLC v. Navarro, the 5-p…
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The right to overtime pay to be significantly extended
August 4th, 2015
The law recognizes several exceptions to the overtime pay requirement under the Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. §§ 201, et seq., (“FLSA”): the Executive, Administrative, Professional, Computer, and Outside Sales exemptions. In other words,…
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