These questions and answers cover the details surrounding the final rule, and address what’s included in the final rule, as well as compliance and communication strategies, budget implications and possible morale and productivity issues.
NEW ORLEANS — A former longtime aide to New Orleans Saints owner Tom Benson is seeking a settlement with his former employer over charges he was racially discriminated against and forced to work more than 40 hours per week without overtime pay.
LAFAYETTE, La. — A home health care agency in New Hampshire that employs about 30 certified nursing assistants, home health aides, and homemakers has agreed to make payments for unpaid overtime wages after it was investigated by the state attorney general’s Fair Labor Division, which is tasked with enforcing state wage and hour laws. The investigation […]
NEW ORLEANS — The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals assessed large monetary sanctions against DOL in an overtime suit that the agency brought against Gate Guard Services, a company that contracts with oil companies to provide gate attendants for remote drilling sites, for violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The attendants apparently remain […]
ALEXANDRIA, La. — class action lawsuit was filed against Central Louisiana Home Health Care, LLC on August 20, 2015. Our overtime pay laws attorneys filed this lawsuit against Central Louisiana Home Health Care, LLC alleging that the company failed to properly compensate its hourly Registered Nurses and Licensed Practical Nurses in violation of the federal Fair Labor […]
NEW ORLEANS — Pat O’Brien’s bartenders received conditional collective action status in Louisiana federal court early in February 2015. The bartenders claimed the managers at the New Orleans bar stole from the tip jar and failed to pay the employees the overtime to which they were entitled. With the conditional certification, nearly 40 additional current […]