On April 30th, the California Supreme Court ruled in Dynamex Operations West v. Superior Court that a new, tougher legal standard will now apply to determining whether California workers are employees or independent contractors. Dynamex is a nationwide same-day...
Department of Labor Appears Set to Tip the Balance Back in Favor of Tip-Pooling In December, the Trump Department of Labor issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking seeking to roll back yet another Obama-era regulation. This time, the target is the Department of Labor’s...
Last Thursday, the NLRB overruled the Obama-era NLRB’s decision in Browning-Ferris Industries, a 2015 ruling that loosened the standard for determining how much control over employees is required before a business entity can be held liable for infractions of federal...
Employers take note: a new slate of employment laws were signed into California law this month, with some taking effect as soon as January 1, 2018. Read on below to see how a few of these new developments may affect your business. AB 450: Employers Prohibited...
Last week, a federal judge declared unlawful the Obama-era Department of Labor rule that attempted to broadly redefine the class of workers eligible for overtime pay across the United States. The rule was controversial from its inception, but that controversy has,...
