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April 11, 2011

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Jury Rejects DOL Interpretation in Case

In March 2010 the Department of Labor (DOL) issued an Administrator's Interpretation (AI) declaring that mortgage loan officers are hourly workers subject to overtime pay and not exempt employees on a salary or commission schedule. Just this past month, however, a federal jury concluded that 350 mortgage loan officers employed by Quicken Loans are indeed exempt employees and do not deserve ...

April 8, 2011

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New York Wage Theft Prevention Act Takes Effect Tomorrow

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The New York Wage Theft Prevention Act takes effect tomorrow, April 9, 2011, tasking employers with new record-keeping and wage notification mandates as well as increasing civil and criminal penalties for pay violations. Under the law, employers must notify employees of their pay information on three separate occasions: at the time of being hired, at least seven calendar days prior to the time ...

April 5, 2011

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DOL Issues Final Rule to Consolidate Changes to FLSA

The Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DOL) today published a Final Rule in the Federal Register to consolidate amendments and update the content of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) of 1938. These "clean-up regulations" take into account amendments to the FLSA passed as far back as 1974, though many are more recent. The Final Rule, which goes into effect 60 da...

April 4, 2011

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OSHA Lists Top Ten Citations from 2010

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The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently published its list of Top Ten Citations for 2010, with this explanation: "OSHA publishes this list to alert employers about these commonly cited standards so they can take steps to find and fix recognized hazards addresses in these and other standards before OSHA shows up." The list: 1926.451 - Scaffolds 1926.501 - F...

April 1, 2011

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NIOSH Sets Goals for Healthy People 2020

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The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH), the wing of the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) charged with workplace health issues, has come out with its list of objectives for Healthy People 2020, a program launched by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Among the objectives are to reduce work-related deaths from injuries from 4.0 per 100,000 to 3.6, reduc...

March 31, 2011

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Milwaukee Sick Leave Law Back On After Court Ruling

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In November 2008 voters in Milwaukee, Wisc., approved a landmark paid sick leave initiative for employees working within the city. A subsequent legal challenge by a local business association got the measure ruled unconstitutional on technical law-writing grounds. Then, just a week ago the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed the original court decision, placing the law back on the books. The ca...

March 28, 2011

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SCOTUS to Hear Walmart Discrimination Case

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The United States Supreme Court will begin hearing arguments in the long-simmering Wal-Mart sex discrimination lawsuit tomorrow morning (March 29, 2011). The nine justices will weigh whether the class action certification in the case of Wal-Mart Stores Inc. v. Dukes is justified under federal rules. Wal-Mart is arguing that monetary relief, as opposed to injunctive relief, is not available unde...

March 25, 2011

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ACA Claims Procedure Deadline Extended

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The Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services and Treasury keep extending the compliance deadline of a provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) affecting non-grandfathered health insurance plans. PPACA originally set the deadline for Jan. 1, 2011, but before that date even rolled around, it was extended to July 1, 2011. On March 18 the deadline was extended once...

March 24, 2011

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EEOC to Publish Final Rule on ADAAA on March 25

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The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has announced that it will publish its Final Rule implementing the ADA Amendments Act in the Federal Register tomorrow (March 25, 2011). The regulations recently cleared review by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and have been praised by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce as reflecting "a carefully crafted compromise between the bu...

March 22, 2011

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SCOTUS Rules Oral Complaints as Valid as Written Ones

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The U.S. Supreme Court today (March 22, 2011) overturned the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling that, to be valid, complaints under the anti-retaliation provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) must be in writing. In Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, the justices rejected what they termed a "narrow interpretation" of language in the FLSA and threw open the sta...

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U.S. Department of Labor Officially Restores Prior Overtime Exemption Rules

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