Who Will Be Entitled to Overtime Under Obama’s Expected Rule Change?
Today, President Obama signed a presidential memorandum instructing the Secretary of Labor to update regulations regarding overtime protections. According to White House officials, and a fact sheet...
View ArticleSome Surprises in DOL’s Just Issued Spring 2014 Regulatory Agenda
On Friday, May 23, 2014, the White House, through its executive branch and other federal agencies, issued the Spring 2014 edition of the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda. Published twice a year, the...
View ArticleOne Step Closer to a $10.10 Minimum Wage for Federal Contractors: Proposed...
On June 12, 2014, U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez announced a proposed rule raising the minimum wage to $10.10 per hour starting on January 1, 2015, for workers on federal service and...
View ArticleYour Guide to the Proposed Rules Under Executive Order 13658 Setting a...
On February 12, 2014, President Barack Obama signed Executive Order 13658 (“Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors”), with instructions to U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas E. Perez to issue...
View ArticleSupreme Court to Decide Paralyzed Veterans Doctrine
When the White House goes from a Democratic president to a Republican president, or vice versa, there are often changes in various federal agencies’ directives to reflect the priorities of the current...
View ArticleAnd the Numbers Are Finally In . . . Wage and Hour Division Releases...
After a long hiatus, the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released its updated enforcement statistics for fiscal years (FY) 2009 through 2013. The federal government’s...
View ArticleWHD Publishes Final Rule Increasing Federal Contractors’ Minimum Wage
On October 7, 2014, the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published its Final Rule establishing standards and procedures to implement Executive Order 13658, entitled...
View ArticleAdministration Publishes Fall 2014 Unified Regulatory Agenda
We expect 2015 to be a very busy year for actions on new or proposed federal regulations in the absence of congressional legislation. That was confirmed on November 21, 2014, when the administration...
View ArticleCongress Passes FY 2015 Omnibus Appropriations Bill: What it Means for Labor...
Narrowly averting a federal government shutdown, on December 13 in a rare Saturday evening session the Senate passed the massive 1600 page, $1.1 trillion FY2015 Omnibus Appropriations bill that will...
View ArticleIndependent Contractor . . . or Not? DOL and Wisconsin DWD Team Up to Reduce...
On January 20, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced that Wisconsin had become the latest state to join the “Misclassification Initiative,” which is designed to protect the rights of...
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