By: Rachel D. Gebaide, Morey Raiskin and Abood Shebib Hurricane season is only half over, with Hurricane Ida leaving a trail of damage across Louisiana and beyond, and Hurricane Larry swirling in the Atlantic Ocean,…
March 8, 2019 The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking yesterday to increase the minimum salary for certain “white-collar” administrative, professional, and executive employees to be classified as “exempt” salaried employees…
By: Rachel D. Gebaide and Timothy C. Haughee On November 22, 2016, a federal court issued a nationwide preliminary injunction against the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that temporarily blocks the implementation of the DOL’s…
By: Rachel D. Gebaide and Timothy C. Haughee May 18, 2016 The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL), at the direction of the White House, issued the long-anticipated final rule that substantially increases the minimum pay…
June 30, 2015 President Obama has announced a proposed rule to increase the minimum weekly salary for overtime exempt employees from $455 to $970. In other words, the minimum annual salary for an exempt employee…
BY: RACHEL D. GEBAIDE & TIMOTHY C. HAUGHEE SEPTEMBER 11, 2014 Earlier today, we presented a seminar entitled “Wage and Hour Compliance: Managing Risk Under the FLSA.” Below is a link to the PDF document…
BY: TIMOTHY C. HAUGHEE MARCH 14, 2014 The Obama Administration announced this week that it will ask the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) to issue rules that increase the minimum salary that must be paid…
By: Rachel D. Gebaide and Timothy C. Haughee October 15, 2013 The Florida Department of Economic Opportunity (“DEO”) has announced that the minimum wage in Florida will increase by 14 cents from $7.79 to $7.93 per…
