Ask any firefighter what some of their primary concerns are and it's doubtful they'll immediately bring up a law first passed by Congress in 1938. But tell a career firefighter there might be changes ...

Last week, the Second Circuit revived an attorney’s claim that he was owed overtime compensation under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and muddied the waters as to when a professional is exempt ...

Although recent district court opinions may signal a turning of the tide on the court-approval requirement for FLSA actions, the law in this area clearly is in a state of flux. The court-approval ...

With summer approaching, many employers are looking to hire interns to increase staffing during a busy season or to build a pipeline for future full-time hiring. But employers need to be careful about ...

It’s hard not to express cynicism when discussing attorney fee awards in overtime class and collective actions. Courts have adopted wildly different tests and benchmarks, and different jurisdictions ...

"The 'Spears' case highlights that non-executives can be held individually liable for a company’s FLSA violations," write Hunton Andrews Kurth's Juan C. Enjamio and Theanna Bezney. Most companies know ...

A majority of U.S. Supreme Court justices may be receptive to a food wholesaler’s stance that employers need not show “clear and convincing evidence” to demonstrate that the Fair Labor Standards Act’s ...

In Sonderling v. Ikes Artisan Pizza LLC, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is pursuing a legal theory that, if adopted by ...

(Reuters) - On Monday, lawyers for three Zurich American Insurance employees submitted a motion asking U.S. District Judge R. Brooke Jackson of Denver to approve a settlement of their clients’ ...

When a colleague’s law firm was successfully sued by a former paralegal for unpaid overtime, I immediately began investigating whether my firm was violating state or federal overtime pay laws. The ...

The financial risk of non-compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is escalating for businesses across the country. This trend underscores a heightened focus on enforcement that directly ...