In July 2015, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) proposed significant changes to the Executive, Administrative, Professional (“EAP”) or “white-collar” exemption under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The FLSA makes it illegal for an employer to pay under the minimum wage and forces employers to pay overtime to those employees
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I often encounter clients who firmly believe that an employer’s human resources (HR) department is a safe haven for employees. While it is true that if you have a problem at work, your first stop should be to your HR rep, employees should remember that, at the end of the
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