Human Resources works with university leadership and departments to ensure compliance with regulations and evaluate the impact on university positions. We will communicate with the proper stakeholders ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has finalized a new rule that increases the salary thresholds for exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This new rule is intended to expand overtime ...

This week, I taught cases on enumerated powers from the Progressive Era and during the New Deal. In Hammer v. Dagenhart (1918), the Supreme Court declared unconstitutional a federal law that banned ...

The Supreme Court will soon hear a wage and hour case with massive implications for employers defending claims under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). Depending on the outcome, the high court’s ...

When Kevin Kasten made oral complaints to his employer regarding potential wage and hour violations, was his conduct protected by the anti-retaliation clause of the Fair Labor Standards Act? Or is the ...

Toremac LLC, a company operating several restaurants in the Bloomington area, failed to pay overtime and properly record daily hours for back-of-house employees, according to an investigation by the ...

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to resolve a split among the lower courts about the employers burden of proof to show that their workers are exempt from the protections of the Fair Labor ...

The U.S. Department of Labor has dropped its investigation into Scale AI’s compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), according to a source directly familiar with the matter. The FLSA is a ...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is investigating the data-labeling startup Scale AI for compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act, TechCrunch has learned. That’s a federal law that regulates ...

When the case is heard next term, the justices will consider whether employers must prove by a "preponderance of the evidence" or instead by "clear and convincing evidence" that one of FLSA's listed ...