New Overtime Pay “White Collar” Rules Challenged in Lawsuits Filed by 21 States
The state attorneys general of Nevada and Texas have a filed a federal court lawsuit seeking to declare invalid the Obama Administration’s new “white collar” exemption rules governing the payment of overtime compensation. They ask the court to vacate and set aside the new rules. Nineteen other states, not including Florida, also joined the lawsuit…
California Farmworkers Get New Overtime Pay Benefits
California, often a path-breaking state in the field of workers’ rights, has adopted legislation expanding the right to receive overtime pay for an estimated more than 825,000 farmworkers across the state. The bill, promoted by the United Farm Workers of America, was signed into law by Democratic Governor Jerry Brown on September 12 after it…
NLRB Rules Once Again That Employers Cannot Prohibit Employees From Asserting Class Actions — Even Though the Courts Hold to the Contrary
Refusing to acknowledge court decisions to the contrary, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has ruled once again that an employer that enforces a policy requiring its employees to waive their right to pursue class, collective, or representative actions in an arbitration or in court, is violating federal labor laws. In two cases involving former…
