Mike LaSusa
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It’s been an eventful year in the U.S., and the regulatory and legislative landscape for wage and hour issues has been no different, from increasing complexity around classifying workers to shifting rules about who must be paid tips, among other things… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A bill passed recently by Ohio’s state Senate that seeks to nix overtime pay for certain “insubstantial or insignificant” off-the-clock tasks might be the first of others like it across the nation as lawmakers grapple with the increasing prevalence of remote work, experts said… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The worker classification debate has picked up steam in the wake of proposed federal regulation on the issue and a recent California ballot initiative that exempted gig company drivers from the state’s landmark employment test. The result is spurring some experts to call for a rethink of the traditional employee-versus-independent contractor framework… Read this piece…
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Attorneys general in California, Illinois, Massachusetts, New York and Pennsylvania have played unique roles and faced novel challenges in their ongoing responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, lawyers from those offices said at a Thursday conference panel… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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Tipped workers at a North Carolina sushi restaurant won a partial revival Tuesday of a Fair Labor Standards Act suit, with the Fourth Circuit ruling that a lower court had erred in applying a commission-based exemption to the federal law’s overtime requirements… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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