One of the stickiest issues in the enforcement of federal wage and hour law concerns employers’ classification of workers as independent contractors. This distinction affects broad sectors of the American workforce, particularly in the modern gig economy. Under the...
Many American workers who put in more than 40 hours a week over the years learned a hard lesson about the numerous exemptions to the law requiring time-and-a-half for overtime pay. Millions of employees in all types of jobs have not been able to collect the overtime...
February, 2013 marked the 20-year anniversary of the signing of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) by then-president Bill Clinton in 1993. The legislation enabled workers the unpaid right to tend to families and their own needs when injured or ill. Most recently,...