On those (hopefully) rare occasions when a supervisor or other exempt employee must be suspended without pay for disciplinary reasons, employers should take special care to ensure that the unpaid ...

The U.S. Department of Labor also addressed exemptions for learned professionals and commission-earning employees under the ...

For employers, this decision provides a clearer roadmap for defending against overtime claims from high-earning employees.

Small-business owners often have questions regarding labor laws. One area that may cause confusion concerns the differences between hourly, salaried-exempt and salaried-nonexempt employees when it ...

For various business reasons, an employer may determine that it needs to move a full-time employee to part-time status. Before an employer makes such a determination, it should pause and carefully ...

In Pippins v. KPMG LLP, No. 13-889 (2d Cir. July 22, 2014), the Second Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously held that entry-level audit associates (“Plaintiffs”) at KPMG LLP qualify for the Fair Labor ...

WASHINGTON - The Internal Revenue Service has tapped James Polfer as the new chief of the tax-exempt bond branch in the associate chief counsel's office for the financial institutions and products ...

The terms "classified" and "unclassified" employee refer to the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. Typically classified workers are paid hourly, with the FLSA setting standards on the minimum hourly ...

AS we look ahead to the new year, significant developments in the tax treatment of de minimis benefits have been issued by ...