The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking with changes to regulations regarding tips under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2018 (CAA).
The FLSA currently permits employers to take a credit towards the minimum wage
In an important wage-and-hour decision for franchisors, Salazar, et al. v. the McDonald’s Corp., et al., the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that employees of one of the hamburger giant’s California-based franchisees were not jointly employed by McDonald’s Corp. and thus the franchisor, McDonald’s Corp., was not liable to the employees under California
Sometimes employment laws can make the common person’s head spin. That certainly could be the case for a recent Fifth Circuit opinion examining the “highly compensated” regulatory exemption from the overtime requirements of the FLSA.
Jeff Faludi used to practice law but began working as