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An update to this post was published on April 22. Late yesterday, March 24, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced its first round of published guidance about the protections and relief offered by the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) and clarified that the new law…

This post was updated March 26 based on subsequent DOL guidance. Updates are shown in red.  Congress enacted the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (H.R. 6201) to provide emergency family and medical leave broader than the current Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and paid sick leave to certain employees affected…

With fears of COVID-19 or Coronavirus Disease mounting, businesses and employers should not only understand how the disease could affect their workplaces but also take steps to minimize any possible impact. To assist with this objective, the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) issued an Interim Guidance…

Employers, another new overtime rule was just released. To complement the final rule increasing the minimum salary threshold for exempt employees, which takes effect on January 1, 2020, which we discussed in an earlier blog post, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule on December 12, 2019, clarifying…

Employers, the long wait is over. You finally have an answer regarding whether the federal overtime regulations are going to be changed. As discussed in previous blog posts Let’s Try This Again: Department of Labor Proposes Salary Increases for White-Collar Exemptions and Once More, With Feeling: Proposed Increase to Minimum Salary for Highly Compensated…