By Steve Kardell | Published October 26, 2020 | Posted in Employee Rights | Tagged Tags: Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA, FLSA violations, U.S. Department of Labor |
As of July 1, the United States Department of Labor is no longer automatically seeking double damages in settlements with employers believed to have violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). There were shifts in FLSA settlement standards this year in response to the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. An executive order from President Trump Read More
Read MoreThe 2019 fiscal year was a record-setting year for the Office of Federal contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP), a division of the Department of Labor. The OFCCP was created to ensure nondiscrimination and equal opportunity employment by contractors and subcontractors working for the federal government. It prohibits these contractors from discriminating on the basis of race, Read More
Read MoreA U.S. District Court judge in the Northern District of Texas has placed a temporary hold on a key Department of Labor rule regarding employers’ ability to influence union matters. In late June, the judge handed down an 86-page order that granted a preliminary injunction against the DOL’s “persuader rule,” which business groups have aggressively Read More
Read MoreIn June, some members of the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee introduced a new measure entitled the Criminal Antitrust Anti-Retaliation Act of 2015. This bill, if approved, would add some additional protection for whistleblowers who give information to the Department of Justice about certain wrongdoing and criminal violations of federal antitrust laws. The legislation wouldn’t just Read More
Read MoreOn March 5, the U.S. Department of Labor gave its Final Rule in a case dealing with the types of procedures that govern the handling of retaliation complaints under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX). The Final Rule indicates that all employees are allowed to submit both written and oral complaints to the Occupational Safety and Health Read More
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