“The following article originally appeared on the Fox Rothschild’s Wage & Hour blog, and was authored by Mark Tabakman, Partner in the Princeton, NJ office.”
When two entities are a joint employer, or could be deemed as such, they must aggregate the hours worked by employees at each facility in a given week. If
Fox Partner Mark Tabakman dives into the details of an unusual employee misclassification case in Texas:
This is a very interesting case. A group of nurses at a Texas hospital claimed they their employer intended to pay them an annual salary rather than an hourly rate and thus they were owed no back wages. They
The Dallas City Council recently enacted a paid sick leave ordinance that requires private employers to provide eligible employees with paid sick leave. It’s important for Dallas employers to understand their obligations under this new law, which we summarize below.
Before we do that, however, a big picture consideration: the ordinance seems likely to face
On Fox’s Immigration View blog, partner Alka Bahal provides a detailed exploration of the I-9 inspection process, in the wake of a recent surge in I-9 audits carried out by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency. All employers in the United States are required to have a Form I-9 on file for all
Each day more and more women come forward to share their stories of abuse within the workplace and without. And people are actually listening.
In the not-so-distant past, the primary concern for some employers may have been the legal consequence of firing a worker after she internally reported sexual harassment. Now, as women become
If business owners are not concerned about the make-up of their workforce, they should be. In recent years, the number of lawsuits concerning misclassification of employees has risen exponentially. This is because companies routinely call members of their workforce independent contractors (“IC”) when in reality they are employees.
If an audit by the Texas Workforce
It seems that a lot is going on in DC these days. In what may have been lost in all the other activity, yesterday the Department of Labor issued a Request for Information seeking notice and comment before issuing revised proposed regulations regarding the minimum salary level required to meet the three most common exemptions
Thank you Fox Rothschild LLP’s Steven Ludwig for forwarding this to me.
Yes, there are other developments going on with the Trump Administration that have nothing to do with Russia, Twitter, and fake news.
Today the Department of Labor withdrew its 2015 and 2016 informal guidance on joint employment and independent contractors. Why is
The Texas Supreme Court has rejected the theory of defamation by compelled self-publication. Say what? you ask? Compelled self-publication occurs most often in the employment context, where a terminated employee is compelled to inform subsequent potential employers why the employee was terminated from the employee’s last job. As the theory goes, if an employer
We invite you to read Part 1 and Part 2 in a series of posts by Fox partner Dori K. Stibolt, regarding the new trend in ADA Title III litigation involving web access for the visually impaired.
Many of these cases have focused on travel, hospitality and financial services companies. However, here in Texas,