Democratic Congressmen Seek to Delay Full Implementation of New Overtime Pay Rules
A bill co-sponsored by North Florida congresswoman Gwen Graham, D-Tallahassee, is seeking to slow down the full implementation of impending changes to the overtime classification regulations pushed through by the Obama Administration. The new regulations enacted by the U.S. Labor Department are set to go into effect on December 1, 2016, affecting every private employer…
The National Labor Relations Board rules that college student assistants are employees and may unionize
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has decided that graduate and undergraduate student teaching and research assistants who perform paid duties at private colleges and universities are employees with the right to form unions and negotiate collective bargaining agreements. In a case deciding petitions filed by student assistants at Columbia University and at The New…
