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USDOL announced that, effective July 1, it will not seek liquidated damages in FLSA investigations as a matter of course.
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Strategic maneuvering to avoid attorney’s fee award in FLSA collective action.
Employers should take steps to lower the risk of a mistaken back-pay ruling in an FLSA "failed exemption" lawsuit.
A decision by the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals both illustrates and exacerbates the morass into which the calculation of overtime pay has descended in so-called "failed exemption" cases under the FLSA.
The 7th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals has adopted an employer-favorable approach to calculating overtime for an employee who was misclassified as exempt.