- Obama wants Hill to force paid leave on employers. What, his rule-by-decree powers didn’t stretch that far? [RCP, USA Today] Department of Labor, using funds taxed from supporters and opponents alike, happy to act as frank advocate for legislation [its blog]
- Employers brace for salaried-overtime mandate, wrought by unilateral Obama decree [KSL, earlier at Cato]
- Related: “Employers To Face More Litigation In 2015 As Plaintiff Lawyers Swoop In” [Daniel Fisher on Gerald Maatman/Seyfarth Shaw report] Here come more NLRB decisions too [Tim Devaney, The Hill]
- Krugman on minimum wage: two economists in one! [Donald Boudreaux, Cafe Hayek via Coyote, @Mike_Saltsman (“Min wage in France is closer to $12/hr US. But Krugman still being inconsistent bc he’s also backed $15 US minimum”)]
- Five pro-de Blasio unions — SEIU/1199, teachers, hotel workers, doormen/building staff, CWA District 1 — help enforce NYC mayor’s agenda [NYDN]
- Testimony: “worst-kept secret” in Philly ironworkers’ union was that you could get ahead through violent “night work” [Philadelphia Inquirer; earlier on Quaker meetinghouse arson here and here, related here]
- Loads of new compliance burdens: “Changes in California Employment Law for 2015” [Baker Hostetler] And it wouldn’t be California without many more employer mandates pending in legislature [Steven Greenhut]
Filed under: California, labor unions, minimum wage, National Labor Relations Board, NYC, Paul Krugman, wage and hour suits, workplace
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I am by no means an expert in labor law, but the article on overtime for salaried workers is totally and I imagine intentionally misleading. The salary-based test is only one of the basis for deciding whether an employee is exempt vs. non-exempt. The main factor as I’ve seen in my profession is the duties test. One of my co-workers who did many of the same work as I, was suddenly classified as non-exempt. Neither of us supervised anyone. My company was required to pay him back pay for the overtime he performed over the past two years. I may be wrong, but the likelihood that someone who is “mostly stocking shelves” will be classified as exempt is ludicrous.
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