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6 Dec 2013, 9:22 am by Jeanine Conley
 This trend is further evidenced by President Obama’s increase in the size and budget of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division over the past four years. [read post]
4 Dec 2013, 4:11 am by Jon Gelman
Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today announced a request for information seeking public comment on potential revisions to its Process Safety Management standard and related standards, as well as other policy options to prevent major chemical incidents.The RFI is in response to executive order 13650, which seeks to improve chemical facility safety and security, issued in the wake of the April 2013 West, Texas, tragedy that… [read post]
25 Nov 2013, 7:55 am by Greg Mersol
Posted by Greg MersolIn a number of cases, the plaintiffs’ strategy in collective active litigation under the Fair Labor Standards Act may fall into a familiar pattern:  file the case, do minimal discovery, move for conditional certification under the first-tier lenient standard, and then settle before decertification. [read post]
21 Nov 2013, 3:53 pm by Jon Gelman
All 13 were later released.Reuters says it was not immediately clear if there were any workers at the Solvay plant when the leak occurred.Last month, the US Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration launched two new web resources that aim to safeguard workers from exposure to hazardous chemicals in response to its own out-of-date standards. [read post]
14 Nov 2013, 1:04 pm by Roshonda Scipio
., Temple University, Department of Legal Studies (Chair), Philadelphia.Hodge, Samuel D. author.Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania : Pennsylvania Bar Institute, [2013]KFP81 .P4 NO.7885 Animal Law Tenth annual animal law conference. [read post]
13 Nov 2013, 5:29 pm by Li Guizhi
The employee, according to the report, contacted the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE) within the Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) with regard to potential violations of California labor employment law.Following the filing of a formal California labor code complaint with the DLSE’s Bureau of Field Enforcement (BOFE), it was determined by investigators following a review of payroll documents that employees had… [read post]
8 Nov 2013, 9:53 am by Nasir Pasha, Esq.
For example, the IRS and the Division of Labor Standards and Enforcement of California (DLSE) each have its own tests with slight differences. [read post]
1 Nov 2013, 8:03 pm by Jon Gelman
Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration today launched two new web resources to assist companies with keeping their workers safe. [read post]
25 Oct 2013, 3:56 am by Lorene Park
For example, a federal court in California ruled that an employee, who was given a “voluminous workload” that prompted her to work through lunch and rest periods, could proceed to a jury trial on her claims under the state’s labor code (Butler v Homeservices Lending LLC). [read post]
24 Oct 2013, 6:41 am by Nassiri Law
Per the new law, which takes effect Jan. 1, 2015, home care aides are going to be considered covered under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. [read post]
30 Sep 2013, 12:42 pm by Dorsey
Department of Labor, certain states, such as California and New York, apply additional criteria of their own to evaluate whether an internship may be unpaid. [read post]
24 Sep 2013, 11:54 am by Wage & Hour Blogger
The United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) has jurisdiction over all federal labor and employment laws, including the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). [read post]
22 Sep 2013, 6:32 am by Jon Gelman
Now, for the first time since 1975, most of these workers will have the wage and overtime protection of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) under a new rule issued today by the Obama administration’s Department of Labor. [read post]
18 Sep 2013, 12:34 pm by Cynthia Marcotte Stamer
  For instance, First Republic Bank recently paid $1,009,643.93 in overtime back wages for 392 First Republic Bank employees in California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York and Oregon after the Labor Department found the San Francisco-based bank wrongly classified the employees as exempt from the FLSA’s overtime and recordkeeping requirements, resulting in violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime and record-keeping… [read post]