Labor & Employment Blog

Online, app-based companies such as Uber and Lyft recently attempted to settle class-action lawsuits brought by drivers who contend they were misclassified as independent contractors rather than employees. Uber recently reached a proposed $100 million dollar settlement with drivers who worked in California and Massachusetts which keeps drivers classified as…

Up until recently, Florida businesses had to rely on state laws to obtain remedies, including injunctive relief, when an employee or competitor misappropriated trade secrets. This changed on May 11, 2016, when President Obama signed into law the Defend Trade Secrets Act of 2016 (“DTSA”), which creates a federal civil…

The day before the final rules extending overtime protections to 4.2 million workers were released, the White House provided its state-by-state and demographic breakdowns of the workers that as of December 1, 2016, will no longer qualify as exempt employees. It is not surprising that Florida was identified as one…

On May 18, 2016, the Department of Labor raised the minimum salary level that certain employees must be paid to qualify as exempt from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act. Under current regulations, executives (supervisors), administrative employees and professionals, must both perform “exempt” duties as defined…

A person can provide services to a company as an employee or an independent contractor depending upon the nature of the relationship between the service provider and the company. Misclassification of employees as independent contractors remains a primary focus of many government agencies, including the IRS, U.S. Department of Labor,…