Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, violations of overtime or minimum wage requirements can result in assessment of ...

Employers in the home care industry should take note of a major development as the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) ...

DOL will no longer seek liquidated (double) damages in pre-litigation FLSA settlements, limiting recovery to unpaid wages.

A Kansas federal district court rejected a joint motion to approve the settlement between Mercury Management and a group of technicians regarding overtime wage claims under the Fair Labor Standards ...

The FLSA regulations list numerous non-exclusive factors that are relevant to whether an employee exercises discretion and independent judgment, including the authority to formulate, ...

President Donald Trump signed a new spending bill on July 4 that includes tax breaks on overtime hours, but truck drivers across the nation will see no benefit from the new legislation.

Since its passage in 1938, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) has exempted, "any employee employed in a bona fide executive, administrative, or professional capacity … (as such terms are ...

Potential FLSA Penalties Employers Could Face Due to a Higher Minimum Wage When an employer violates the FLSA, it’s often a deliberate, bad faith act to keep an employee from receiving the wages ...

In FLSA collective action litigation, employee challenges have focused on two primary theories. First, employees often allege that they are misclassified as exempt when in fact they are really ...

A New York federal court denied dismissal of a laborer’s class action FLSA and 26 U.S.C. § 7434 tax fraud claims against Prime Structure, Inc., Prime Structure NY, Inc., Marathon Builders, Inc., Big ...