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The U.S. Department of Labor has recently issued regulations that update several important provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) – including tip credits, bonus payments under fluctuating workweeks (a/k/a Chinese Overtime) and overtime for Service Advisors. The new regulations take effect May 5,...

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Documents filed with the court indicate that a settlement agreement has been reached whereby DHL will pay up to $10.5 million to settle unpaid vacation pay claims brought on behalf of DHL’s former employees in California who lost accrued benefits as a result of a...

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The Evolving Workplace: Exempt and Non-Exempt Employees When Congress updated the FLSA overtime law (Fair Labor Standards Act) in 1994, they did so with an eye to updating the changing face of the American employment landscape. Advancing technology has not only simplified the average Americans...

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Q: I am having some overtime pay problems at work and did a Google search. I keep running acrossthe term “FLSA Overtime.”  What is FLSA and what does it have to do with overtime? FLSA overtime refers to the Fair Labor Standards Act, and it is...

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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) states that most people, who work more than 40 hours in a 7 day workweek, must be paid 1.5 times their regular rate of pay, which is called overtime.  An overtime lawsuit is one in which a company is...

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Dick's Sporting Goods Properly Paying Overtime According to recent filings with the federal court in New York,  Dick's Sporting Goods Inc. has agreed to pay up to $15 million to resolve a number of wage-related claims brought by current and former employees who say the...

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Understanding Independent Contractor Misclassification The Bureau of Labor Statistics has estimated that more than 10.3 million workers in the United States, over 7% of the entire workforce, are classified by businesses as independent contractors. A Department of Labor study in 2000 concluded that up to...

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The FLSA (federal Fair Labor Standards Act) and similar state labor laws prohibit employers from retaliating against employees who exercise their rights under the law.  When an employer is found to have engaged in such unlawful retaliation, the consequences can be costly.  For example -...

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Former employees of Chipotle restaurant have sued the company claiming that it did not pay them their final wages in a timely manner after they were terminated for failing to provide documents proving they are eligible to work in the U.S. These terminations came in...

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Two Washington state Chinese restaurants have agreed to pay $420,000 in back wages and liquidated damages to 83 employees in order to settle a wage and hour lawsuit filed against them by the Department of Labor (DOL) that alleged several violations of the federal Fair...

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