Labor Days
Title VII and Sexual Orientation – Front and Center at the Second Circuit on Inauguration Day
As President-Elect Donald Trump moved into the White House on Inauguration Day last Friday, the excitement and political tensions were not confined to the nation’s capital. LGBTQ rights supporters decorated with…
Happy New Year and Be Aware of New NY State Salary Thresholds
NEW EXEMPT SALARY THRESHOLD – As the ball is dropping in Times Square, wage and hour regulations are changing for employers in New York. The New York Department of Labor has made it clear that on December 31, 2016, at…
Health Care Reform – What You Should Know For 2017
This Advisory supplements our previous advisories dated December 2015 (as supplemented in January 2016 ), October 2014, October 2013, November 2012, November 2011, and October 2010, addressing the requirements of…
The DOL Will Appeal Injunction Suspending Regulations Raising the White Collar Salary Minimums
As we continue to follow the progress of the injunction suspending the Department of Labor’s regulations raising the salary minimums for the ‘white collar exemption’, yesterday the DOL informed a Texas federal court…
Are the DOL Regulations Dead, or Just on Life Support?
As you finish your Thanksgiving preparations the last thing you needed was a major legal development in the area of Employment law – but we had one yesterday. On November 22, Judge Amos Mazzant, sitting in the Eastern…