Despite agreeing to the consent decree, the company denies the allegations, per court documents.
Feds Issue New Guidance on the Paid Family and Medical Leave Tax Credit
The Department of the Treasury and the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) have issued new guidance on the paid family and medical leave tax credit, but the change is more than a tax-planning issue. For some employers, it could reduce the cost of offering paid family and...
NLRB confirmations secure Republican majority
The three-member Republican majority will now allow the board “to overturn prior precedential decisions,” according to an Ogletree Deakins blog post.
Could climate change lead to increased FMLA use? Attorneys are afraid so.
The U.S.’s recent spate of wildfire-induced air pollution provided a view of the direct effect extreme weather events may have on leave management.
DOL Opinion Letter FLSA2026-10 Addresses Phone Calls During Commutes
Field-based roles raise unique FLSA compliance questions, including whether an employer must pay for work tasks performed before or during the commute to the first job site. A recent DOL opinion letter addressed the issue. The question came from a field service...
Wage compression — not job cuts — may be the outcome of AI adoption at work
Employers may have to square cost savings with a workforce that is less financially secure.
Payroll Scheme to Avoid Overtime Backfires: $457K Payout
What happens when an employee works 50 hours per week, but payroll makes it look like 25 hours for each of two companies to avoid overtime premiums? That was the setup allegedly devised by the owner of two janitorial companies in New Jersey. Now the companies must...
DMEC CEO: Leave should be a strategic objective
“We still design for the able-bodied person more than we think about the population as a whole,” Bryon Bass told HR Dive.
5th Circuit applies longstanding discrimination test even as judges call it ‘wrong’
A majority of the court appeared open to reconsidering the U.S. Supreme Court’s McDonnell Douglas framework, the soundness of which has come into question in recent years.
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