The United States Department of Labor will restore a prior practice of issuing opinion letters on questions about the application of federal wage and hour laws. During President George W. Bush’s two terms in the White House, the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued an average of 28 opinion letters per year. President … Read more
Depending on how big your organization is, you may or may not have any attorneys in house. Unless you are rather large, you probably don’t have a lawyer on hand with particular experience in labor and employment matters. In that case, you likewise may or may not have human resource professionals with employment law compliance … Read more
On June 20, 2017, President Donald Trump named his first nominee for the National Labor Relations Board. Republican attorney Marvin Kaplan is currently counsel to the federal Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission. Kaplan’s nomination leaves one more vacancy on the NLRB. President Trump is expected to nominate private-practice labor attorney William J. Emanuel to … Read more