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Barran Liebman LLP
over 9 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Volunteer Firefighters are Employees for Purposes of Federal Law, Sixth Circuit Holds
Last week, a divided Sixth Circuit panel determined that "volunteer" firefighters who receive $15 per hour are employees for purposes of federal employment laws. Mendel v. City of Gibraltar , __ F3d __, 2013 U.S. App. LEXIS 16922 (6th Cir, Aug...
Fisher & Phillips LLP
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Court "Certifies" Gawker Media Interns' Collective Action
by John E. Thompson After more than a year of litigation (the filing of which we reported at the time), former unpaid Gawker Media interns will be permitted to send notices to other unpaid or allegedly underpaid interns to inform those potential plaintiffs...
Fisher & Phillips LLP
over 8 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Will The President's Immigration Initiative Spur FLSA Claims?
Lurking among the numerous considerations raised by President Obama's "immigration accountability" initiative are the prospects that this action will result in more allegations by or on behalf of the affected individuals that they have not...
Eric Meyer
over 9 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Three Minor Leaguers Claim Major League Baseball Violated the Fair Labor Standards Act
When you think of minor league baseball, you may draw on movies like Bull Durham or The Rookie ; long bus trips from stadium to stadium where teams play in front of small crowds for small pay. Well, apparently, the pay may be small enough to trigger...
Jon Hyman
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Compensable Working Time : FLSA :: Disability : Pre-2009 ADA
Think back to when you took your SATs, many years ago—number-2 pencils, plastic school chairs and laminate-topped desks, florescent lights, nervous sweat, and, the bane of many a high-schooler, the analogies that comprise so much of the SAT’s...
Fisher & Phillips LLP
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
FLSA Section 13(a) Exemptions Comment Period Will Not Be Extended
by John E. Thompson There will be no extension of the original 60-day period for commenting on the U.S. Labor Department's proposals and requests relating to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(1) exemptions. U.S. Wage and...
Eric Meyer
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Are Paralegals Entitled to Overtime Under the FLSA? Probably.
Last Friday, I had the honor and privilege of presenting at the Philadelphia Association of Paralegals’ Education Conference . The class was essentially a primer on the basics of employment law, during which I emphasized both the types of claims...
Fisher & Phillips LLP
over 10 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
More Challenges From Hurricane Sandy: Wage-Hour Issues And Related Matters
by John E. Thompson In thinking-through and implementing their recovery plans in the wake of Hurricane Sandy, employers will want to review our August post summarizing a number of federal Fair Labor Standards Act issues that typically arise following...
Abbey Spanier
over 10 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Will Home Care Workers Finally Get FLSA Protection?
Under the current version of the Fair Labor Standards Act (the "FLSA"), workers that provide companionship services, including home health care workers, are exempt from wage and overtime compensation requirements (the "companionship exemption"...
Jon Hyman
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Is Anyone Still Using Unpaid Interns?
I’ve cautioning about the use of unpaid interns almost as long as this blog has been a blog ( here , here , and here , for example). Last week, the 11th Circuit, in Schumann v. Collier Anesthesia [pdf] , became the third federal appellate court...
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
over 9 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Must Employers Pay Salaried Workers for Time Not Worked Under the FLSA?
by Keisha N. Jackson Riddle me (you) this: A salaried employee has worked for your company for just two weeks. He gets sick and misses one full day of work. He has accrued a small number of hours in his leave bank but not enough to cover the whole...
Steptoe & Johnson PLLC
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Unpaid Interns and the Fair Labor Standards Act
by Joseph U. Leonoro With the arrival of summer, many companies are hiring college and high school students to work as interns during summer break. Often, employers do not pay interns at all, or only pay them a stipend or other amount which is lower...
Philip Miles
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
SCOTUS Returns to Unanswered Question from Symczyk
Remember the FLSA "pick-off" case? In Genesis Healthcare v. Symczyk, the Court held that if an FLSA collective action becomes moot as to the only plaintiff (before additional plaintiffs were added), then the entire claim becomes moot (and the...
Craig Salner
over 11 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Picking Off the FLSA Case
For what today's case lacks in juicy facts, it makes up for in practical legal impact. In Dionne v. Floormasters Enterprises, Inc. , 2011 U.S. App. LEXIS 15560 (11th Cir. July 28, 2011), the Eleventh Circuit affirmed dismissal of a wage and hour...
Eric Meyer
over 7 years ago
Labor and Employment Law
Labor and Employment Law Blog
Must You Pay Employees Who “Volunteer” to Use Social Media For the Company?
Work-related blogging is compensable time. Yesterday, I read the District of Hawaii opinion in Tagupa v. VIPdesk, Inc. . Tagupa worked for VIPdesk, a national concierge network, as part of its remote concierge team [subscribers can access an enhanced...
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