The US Department of Labor (DOL) will soon propose a new regulation that would apply a version of the decades-old "economic realities test" as its standard for determining whether a worker is an independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
Sharing servers' tips with managers or using servers' tips to pay other employees' wages is prohibited under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), as recent developments highlight.
The Fast Food Accountability and Standards Recovery Act (FAST Recovery Act) establishes a new 10-member Fast Food Council and vests it with the authority to set employment standards for fast food restaurants including wages, working conditions and training.
Unless the rate of inflation unexpectedly goes down over the next three months, the New Jersey minimum wage could be at least $14.13 per hour for large employers and at least $12.93 for small and seasonal employers.
Glendale joins Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, Seattle and several other localities that have enacted hotel worker ordinances in recent years.
The Michigan Court of Claims has struck down the state's minimum wage and paid sick leave laws and restored earlier versions of the laws passed in 2018, which are significantly more beneficial to employees.
The new Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) rules are expected to raise the minimum salary for most overtime-exempt employees and possibly update the duties tests as well.
The 9th Circuit's ruling in Johnson v. WinCo Foods, LLC shows that employers can help shield themselves from liability by making job offers contingent on applicants passing pre-employment drug tests and/or background checks rather than onboarding applicants before testing them.
The Biden administration wants to go back to the drawing board after a federal judge reinstated the Trump administration's independent contractor rule earlier this spring.
The Supreme Court of California has ruled that extra pay required for missed meal and rest breaks constitutes wages rather than penalties under the state labor code.