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21 Apr 11:15 am
... to determine compliance. The Solis case involves a claim for payment of overtime wages by an employee of a Native-owned retail operation. The Puyallup Tribe in Washington state has a store known as Baby Zack's Smoke Shop located on trust land within ... in
her effort to enforce the statute in question. Unless the decision of the 9th Circuit is overturned by the US Supreme Court, Tribes and Native Corporations must now comply with
the requirements of the FLSA, and assume they are subject to intrusive ...
22 Jun 11:17 am
... of the State of Washington. Baby Zack's regularly employs both Indian and non-Indian workers. The Puyallup Tribe entered into a treaty in the 1850s known as the Treaty of Medicine Creek. The Treaty of Medicine Creek provides that the " ... tribes if: (1) the
law touches exclusive rights of selfgovernance in purely intramural matters; (2) the application of the law to the tribe would abrogate rights
guaranteed by Indian treaties; or (3) there is proof by legislative history or some other means that ...
21 Apr 3:29 am
Solis v. Matheson Appellant Paul Matheson is a member of the Puyallup Tribe. The Puyallup Tribe is a Pacific Northwest Indian tribe that has a reservation
in the State of Washington. Paul Matheson owns and operates a retail store known as Baby Zack's Smoke Shop ("Baby Zack's"), located on trust land within the Puyallup Indian Reservation. [...]
20 Apr 3:53 pm
... concluded that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) applies to an Indian-owned smoke shop on trust land on the Puyallup Reservation, and
that the Secretary of Labor has authority to enter the business to audit its records as the Secretary can do ... that the operation of the smoke shop was an intramural self-government
issue. In part, this finding was based on the fact that the Puyallup Tribe did not "act[ ] on its
right of self governance in the field of wage and hour laws and specifically with ...
20 Apr 7:45 pm
... known as Baby Zack's Smoke Shop, located on trust land within the Puyallup Indian Reservation in the State of Washington. The court
acknowledged that Indian tribes generally operate under the legal shelter of "sovereign immunity." The court wrote: " ... , the Ninth Circuit's decision can be characterized as
part of a trend towards regulating labor relations of Indian tribes, particularly where the rights of a non-Indian workforce are at stake. In 2007, as reported in our Legal
Update here (page 2), ...
30 Mar 12:03 pm
... Tribal members prefer to utilize ID cards issued by their Tribal governments when traveling internationally, to reflect the sovereignty of their Tribes. Despite the 1794 Jay
Treaty that guarantees indigenous peoples the right to move freely between Canada and the U.S ... turned back at the border. Tulalip Tribal leaders have agreed to develop ID cards for
several Northwest Tribes, along with a database that would link to computers at the border, but it appears unlikely the systems will be on-line in ...
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