Labor Days
Law360 Mentions Partner Mark Konkel as Counsel to Saks in Proposed Wage and Hour Class Action
Partner Mark Konkel was mentioned as Saks Fifth Avenue’s defense counsel in a newly-filed wage-and-hour class action in the Law360 article “Saks Hit With NY Wage Class Action Over Sales Commissions.” The high-end…
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…
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…
What You Need to Know About Recent Amendments to Illinois’s Equal Pay Act
As of January 1, 2016, Illinois’s Equal Pay Act (the “Act”) expanded to prohibit all employers, regardless of size, from paying unequal wages to men and women for doing the same or substantially similar work, except if…