Posts from December 2011.
The deadline is set for submitting comments on proposed provisions that would drastically limit the FLSA's exemptions for "companionship" workers and live-in domestic employees.
Exemptions And Exceptions, Proposed RegulationsTags: companionship, domestic, 13(a)(15), 13(b)(21), companionship services, domestic service, live-in domestics, live-in, home care, household, direct care, direct care workers, home care workers, companionship exemption, domestic-service exemption, Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA, proposed regulations, PHI, Paraprofessional Healthcare Institute
The recent federal appropriations law contains at least one positive development concerning the FLSA exemption status of automobile-dealership service writers and similar employees.
Compliance, Exemptions And Exceptions, Government Enforcement, Legislation, Overtime Work, Overtime CompensationTags: service writer, service advisor, service manager, service salesman, salesman, partsman, mechanic, 13(b)(10)(A), 13(b)(10), overtime exemption, exemption, dealership, FLSA, Fair Labor Standards Act, automobile dealership, Department of Labor Appropriations Act 2012, Section 113, 29 C.F.R. § 779.372(c)(4), 779.372(c)(4)
Efforts to eviscerate the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's Section 13(a)(15) "companionship" exemption have now formally moved to the regulatory arena.
Recent U.S. Labor Department news releases show something important about its current approach to enforcing the federal Fair Labor Standards Act.