Nov 1, 2016 | Legal Updates
Background: The Fair Labor Standards Act (the FLSA) contains rules regarding overtime, including which job positions are non-exempt versus exempt, and it dictates that employees in non-exempt job positions receive overtime pay. In contrast, the FLSA does not require...
Oct 25, 2016 | Legal Updates
Background: Almost every workplace and almost every employee in the United States is covered by a U.S. law named the Fair Labor Standards Act, the FLSA for short. The FLSA, in partnership with laws passed in each state, sets a minimum hourly rate that must be paid...
Oct 17, 2016 | Legal Updates
For many years, a majority of non-government employers, and federal contractors and subcontractors, have had to complete an Employer Information Report (EEO-1) annually, charting the number of their employees by gender, by race and by ethnicity in each job category...
Sep 29, 2016 | Legal Updates
Time clock rounding is a longtime practice by which employers round employee start and stop times to the nearest five minutes, nearest one-tenth of an hour, or nearest quarter of an hour. While it has been the norm for many years, is the practice legal? Although...
Sep 22, 2016 | Legal Updates
Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) eligible employees of covered employers (i.e., those employers with 50 or more employees within 75 miles of an employer’s worksite) are entitled to unpaid, job-protected leave for specific family and medical reasons for up...
Sep 1, 2016 | Legal Updates
Employees in Arizona are protected in some circumstances against retaliation for “whistleblowing,” which is the reporting of what the employee believes is illegal conduct engaged in by the employer. Arizona has one “whistleblowing” law that applies to individuals who...
