A recent $4 million settlement between the U.S. Labor Department and a Texas healthcare employer highlights a recurring overtime issue under the FLSA.

The U.S. Labor Department is issuing its Final Rule re-stating the requirements for and limitations upon the FLSA's "companionship" exemption.

A statement of some federal-law limitations and requirements relating to the increasingly popular practice of compensating employees via the use of "pay cards" came from an atypical direction on September 12.