With inflation continuing unbridled at record-setting levels, its impact on minimum wages across the nation is becoming clearer with each week. As we’ve advised in the past, and as recently as only two weeks ago, those states and local communities that tethered minimum wage increases to the Consumer Price Index. Unfortunately, there are more increases…
Read More »When the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) opens its new term next week, one of the first cases it will hear involves the highly compensated employee overtime exemption. SCOTUS has scheduled oral arguments on the issue to be presented in Washington DC on October 12. The case being heard is Helix Energy Solutions…
Read More »Of course, all of the focus of late on the United States Supreme Court (SCOTUS) has been on the leak of the draft decision overturning Roe v Wade, but there is other important news coming from the nation’s highest court. As a case in point, the court announced earlier this month that in its next…
Read More »Last week, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine signed a law making some significant changes to the overtime exemption rules in the Buckeye State. SB47, which the legislature passed last month, exempts certain activities from overtime pay if they are preliminary or postliminary to the principal word activities. For example, traveling to or from the actual place…
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