Employer Faces $2M FLSA Lawsuit For Alleged Worker Misclassification
Health Care Reform Adds Fuel To Enforcement Fire Employers must ensure they can defend their treatment of workers as as independent contractors or otherwise exempt from wage and hour and overtime...
View ArticleLabor Department Adds State Unemployment Insurance To War Against Worker...
The already significant enforcement risks of employers caught misclassifying workers as independent contractors, leased employees or in some other non-employee status are set to rise more as a result...
View ArticleOFCCP Proposes Compensation Transparency Mandates For Government Contractors
Government contractors should brace for more employee scrutiny, employee organizing and other employee and government pressure on compensation practices if the U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of...
View ArticleShell Oil/Motiva Enterprises $4.5M FLSA Overtime Backpay Settlement Reminder...
Shell Oil Co. and Motiva Enterprises LLC, which markets Shell gasoline and other products, will pay $4,470,764 in overtime back wages to 2,677 current and former chemical and refinery employees to...
View ArticleOFCCP FAQs On Veteran Hiring & Telework Rules
Facing heightened requirements, audits and scrutiny of their compliance with federal contracting requirements under the Obama Administration, federal government contractors and their subcontractors...
View ArticleEncourage Workers To Review Withholding As Part Of Annual Enrollment
Still Time to Act to Avoid Surprises at Tax-Time With the year end approaching, employers can help employees get more bank from their paycheck by encouraging the employees to review their withholding...
View ArticleGovernment Contractors Get More Time To Comment On Burdens Of OFCCP Proposed...
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs is giving employers that are government contractors and the subcontractors working with them more time to comment on for...
View ArticleStamer Kicks Off Dallas HR 2015 Monthly Lunch Series With 2015 Federal...
Human resources and other management leaders are watching Washington to see if the change in Congressional control resulting from the November 4, 2014 mid-term election ushers in a more management...
View ArticleEEOC Charges Employer Violated ADA By Terminating Employment At FMLA Leave End
Employers considering terminating the employment of employees not ready to resume their usual duties when their eligibility for medical leave ends under the Family & Medical Leave Act (FMLA) or...
View ArticleState Exchange Problems Present ACA Concerns That Exist Beyond King v. Burwell
While most Americans are familiar with the well-publicized issues and higher than projected premium costs of coverage offered to Americans enrolling in health care coverage through the federal...
View ArticleHIPAA Settlement Warns Health Plans, Sponsoring Employers & Business...
Health plans, insurers and other health plan industry service providers widespread use and reliance on internet applications to access and share protected health information when performing online...
View ArticleEEOC ADA Suit Against Magnolia Health Highlights US Employer’s Growing...
A new disability discrimination lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) against Visalia, California -based Magnolia Health Corporation and its affiliates (Magnolia)...
View ArticleStrengthen Your Cyber Security By Sharing National Cyber Security Awareness...
Halloween’s annual celebration of spooks and goblins peak is a perfect time to promote awareness and help American businesses and citizens build their skills to guard against the real and growing...
View ArticleMarketplace Data Deficiencies Signal Employer ACA Headaches
By: Cynthia Marcotte Stamer Employers, health plans and individual taxpayers should be concerned about reports of deficiencies in the eligibility and enrollment tracking procedures of some health...
View ArticleBrace For Health Plan OCR HIPAA Audits
Employer and union sponsored health plans, their sponsors, fiduciaries, and business associates should brace for audits and enforcement of the Privacy, Security, and Breach Notification rules by the...
View ArticleDOL “Persuader Rule” Changes Broaden Employer & Consultant Anti-Union...
By: Cynthia Marcotte Stamer The Obama Administration is moving forward on yet another effort to empower union organizing efforts and disempower employer efforts to fight union organization efforts by...
View ArticleManage Retaliation Risks In Response To Updated EEOC Enforcement Guidance,...
U.S. employers, employment agencies, unions, their benefit plans and fiduciaries, and their management and service providers should move quickly to review and strengthen their employment and other...
View ArticleDOL Aggressively Targeting Restaurants For Wage & Hour & Child Labor Law...
Restaurant employers beware! Restaurants are the target of a highly successful, U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division (WHD) restaurant enforcement and compliance initiative that WHD already...
View ArticleDOL Barred From Forcing Employers To Report Labor Relations Advice Under...
Employers paying lawyers or other labor relations consultants for advice or help deterring or responding to unionization organizing activities do not have comply with the controversial “Persuader Rule”...
View ArticleDOL Appeals Preliminary Injunction Blocking White Collar Exemption Salary...
The US Department of Labor (DOL) is appealing the November 22 Nevada v US Department of Labor ruling preliminarily enjoining DOL from implementing or enforcing a modification to the DOL Fair Labor...
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