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New Year, New Restrictions on Non-Compete Agreements
States across the country continue to enact legislation limiting the use of non-compete agreements. The most notable trend is the applicability (or, rather, non-applicability) of non-competition agreements to low-wage earners. As the new year begins, and many of these laws … Continue reading
Posted in Restrictive Covenant, Snell & Wilmer
| Tagged Employees, Non Compete, Non Competition, Non-Competition Agreement
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U.S. Department of Labor Issues New Rule Clarifying Exclusions from Overtime Calculation
On December 12, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) finalized a new rule that lets employers leave several perks, including tuition benefits, paid leave cash-outs, and some bonuses, out of the formula used to calculate employees’ overtime pay. According … Continue reading
Posted in DOL, FLSA, Pay, Snell & Wilmer
| Tagged Fair Labor Standards Act, Overtime, Wage & Hour
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U.S. Department of Labor Issues Final Salary Threshold Rule, Effective January 1, 2020
On September 24, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a final rule to make an estimated 1.3 million American workers eligible for overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Check out Snell & Wilmer’s legal alert … Continue reading
Posted in DOL, FLSA, Pay
| Tagged Final Rule, Highly Compensated Employees, Overtime, Salary, US Department of Labor
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Common and Costly Employer Mistake: Not Paying Overtime Premium on Incentive Compensation
Most employers know that the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires minimum wage and overtime to be paid to employees unless they are exempt. A common mistake, however, is when employers fail to properly factor certain incentive compensation into non-exempt … Continue reading
U.S. Department of Labor Proposes New Salary Threshold Rule
On March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to update the minimum salary threshold under the Fair Labor Standards Act – an update that would make approximately a million more … Continue reading
Posted in DOL, FLSA, Pay
| Tagged Eastern District of Texas, Fifth Circuit, Notice, Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, Obama, Overtime, U.S. District Court, USDOL
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States Push Back on Local Paid-Sick-Leave Laws
Snell & Wilmer’s Josh Woodard and Benjamin Nucci were quoted in Society for Human Resource Management’s HR Magazine article on the state and local paid sick leave laws across the country. Read on here.
Posted in Uncategorized
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OMB Blocks EEOC’s Pay Reporting Requirements
Last Tuesday, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) halted the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s collection of pay data from employer information reports, called EEO-1s. See here. The EEOC finalized the rule related to pay data collection in September 2016 in … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, EEOC, Pay
| Tagged Confidentiality, Data Collection, EEO, OMB, Pay Data, Privacy, Reporting Requirements, Trump, Victoria Lipnic
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