Effective January 1, 2014, Ohio's minimum wage is increasing 10 cents to $7.95 per hour. The minimum hourly wage for non-tipped employees is linked to inflation under a state constitutional amendment Ohio voters approved in 2006. The minimum wage uses the Consumer...
PROTECTING YOUR RIGHTS IN THE WORKPLACE
When Do Employers Have To Give Me My Final Paycheck and What Can I Do To Get What I’m Owed?
Unfortunately for employees, Ohio has no direct statute requiring an employer to immediately pay an employee in full upon being terminated. Rather, Ohio has a statute that required employers that pay employees on a semi-monthly basis to make full payment for wages...
Department of Labor Issued Fair Labor Standards Act Final Rule
On September 17, 2013, the United States Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division announced a final rule expanding the Fair Labor Standards Act's minimum wage and overtime protections to direct care workers who provide essential home care assistance to elderly...
Acting General Counsel Includes Front Pay in NLRB Settlements
Acting General Counsel of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Lafe E. Solomon issued Memorandum GC 13-02 on January 9, 2013 modifying existing Board policy to now permit Agency settlements to include front pay. The memorandum confirmed the long standing...
Ohio Raises Minimum Wage to $7.85
Effective January 1, 2013, the new minimum wage in Ohio rose 15 cents to $7.85 per hour. The minimum hourly wage for non-tipped employees is linked to inflation under a state constitutional amendment Ohio voters approved in 2006. The minimum wage uses the Consumer...
Employer’s shifting explanations may evidence discrimination
The Sixth Circuit's age discrimination decision in Gaglioti v. Levin group, Inc., Sixth Circuit Case No. 11-3744 (Dec. 13, 2012), held shifting explanations for discharging an employee may constitute evidence of age discrimination. Joseph Gaglioti worked in the...
Unpaid Summer “Interns” May Expose Employers to Liability
The summer is a time when many students turn to a summer internship to further their career aspirations. Many employers turn to an unpaid internship program in an effort to both allow students to gain valuable "real world" experience and permit employers to...
Lady Gaga’s Touring Company Subject to Fair Labor Standards Act
Large employers are not the only ones subject to the reach of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Jennifer L. O'Neill, former assistant to Lady Gaga, has filed a Complaint against Mermaid Touring Inc. in the United States District Court for the Southern...
Travel time under the FLSA: How do I pay my employees for work-related trips?
This is a tricky question, because it depends on how your employee is "classified" under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA"). Under the FLSA, there are two types of employees: exempt and non-exempt. On the one hand, exempt employees are compensated through a salary...
Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Retaliation
Recently, the Supreme Court interpreted the complaint provision of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which deals with minimum wage and overtime. 29 U.S.C. § 201 et seq. In Kasten v. Saint-Gobain Perf. Plastics Corp., the Court addressed the phrase "filed any...
