Employment Law

Are Your Employee Incentives Putting You at Risk?

Employment Law Update January 2020 Many employers utilize bonuses to incentivize employees and reward them for things such as perfect attendance or for exceeding production quotas. Most employers know that unless an employee qualifies as exempt, the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) requires the employer to pay overtime to employees who work more than 40 [...]

DOL Salary Increase Update

Employment Law Update September 2019 On September 24, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced its final rule to increase the minimum salary required for an employee to qualify for the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions from the Fair Labor Standard Act’s minimum wage and overtime requirements. The DOL estimates that an additional 1.3 million American [...]

New EEOC Data Requirement

Employment Law Update May 2019 On April 25, a U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. ruled in National Women's Law Center, et al., v. Office of Management and Budget, et al. that the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (“EEOC”) must collect 2018 “Component 2” data (hours worked and pay information categorized by race, ethnicity, and sex) [...]

Proposed Overtime Rule

Employment Law Update March 2019 On March 7, 2019, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced its long-awaited Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) pursuant to which the DOL proposes to increase the minimum salary required for an employee to qualify for an exemption from overtime. The proposed increase is projected to result in an excess of [...]

Employee Classification

Employment Law Update February 2019 On February 12, 2019, the federal Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Ohio) reinforced the importance of properly classifying workers as employees, as opposed to independent contractors, and of keeping accurate and adequate records of hours worked. In Acosta v. Off Duty Police Servs., et. al., the Sixth Circuit [...]

Medical Marijuana

Employment Law Update August 2018 As many of you are aware, Ohio’s medical marijuana law is supposed to go into effect no later than September 8, 2018. However, due to various delays that have culminated in the State’s inability to issue certificates of operation to growers in a timely manner, it does not appear that [...]

Overtime Rule Struck

Employment Law Update September 2017 A federal judge in Texas recently struck down the Obama-era overtime rule that would have likely resulted in the expansion of overtime pay to millions of currently exempt employees. The proposed rule would have raised the minimum salary necessary for an employee to be exempt from overtime compensation from $23,660 [...]

OSHA Reporting Requirements Delayed

Employment Law Update June 2017 The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recently decided to delay the compliance deadline for its rule requiring certain employers to electronically submit worker illness and injury data to the agency. OSHA’s Injury and Illness Recordkeeping and Reporting Requirements website states that: “OSHA is not accepting electronic submissions of injury [...]