SUMMARY: The Department of Labor (Department) is withdrawing its notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) published on December 4, 2024 (89 FR 96466), which proposed to amend 29 CFR part 525 to phase out ...

A. Jonathan Trafimow and Julia Gavrilov, of Moritt Hock & Hamroff, address questions surrounding settlements in employment actions, particularly after 'Cheeks v. Freeport Pancake House', in which ...

The Fair Labor Standards Act, signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1938, set a minimum wage, overtime requirements and standards for child labor. The act, which sprang from the ...

Experts say the FAIR Act, which awaits the governor’s signature, is the first major reform to come to Illinois’ public defense system since 1949, 14 years before the the right to court ...

In a significant home care advocacy victory this week, the Department of Labor on Monday proposed a rule that would reinstate the so-called companionship exemption, which excludes some home care ...

In 1974, Congress applied the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to "domestic service" employees, but exempted employees who provide "companionship services" from the minimum wage and overtime ...

The US Labor Department wants to end an expansion of minimum wage and overtime protections to some home health aides. The proposal, to be published in the Federal Register July 2, would rescind a 2013 ...