Employment
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President Joe Biden has promised his administration will aggressively enforce federal wage and hour laws and regulations, and that means employers need to be ready if the U.S. Department of Labor comes knocking, experts told Law360… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The Ninth Circuit ruled that interstate transportation companies don’t have an out from California’s wage statement rules, and the Fourth Circuit scrutinized a federal overtime exemption for certain retail and service employees. All over the country, federal appeals courts are making important rulings that sometimes fly under the radar… Read this piece in its entirety…
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The nation’s leading intern advocacy group is calling on President Joe Biden’s administration to develop stricter standards around unpaid internships, warning that the economic effects of the COVID-19 pandemic could exacerbate problems of worker misclassification… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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A California appeals court shot down trucking companies’ preemption challenge to the state’s worker classification test, and an appeals court in New York handed app-based drivers a classification win. All over the country, state courts are making waves with rulings that sometimes fly under the radar… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to take up the question of whether it falls to courts or arbitrators to decide if a dispute should be arbitrated, dealing a fatal blow to a lawsuit alleging Domino’s Pizza suppresses wages with no-poach provisions in franchise agreements… Read this piece in its entirety at Law360.
Mike LaSusa 