Last week on this blog, we warned of the latest Department of Labor (DOL) crackdown aimed at unpaid internships. As further evidence that the DOL is getting serious about illegally unpaid internships, they have released a new fact sheet that…

Over the past several days, we’ve discussed certain contract positions that can be exempt from the overtime regulations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which requires most employees to be paid at a rate of 1.5 times the regular…

In a recent blog post, we discussed the issue of negligent hiring and how you can be held liable if you are a contract recruiter running your own back-office. The Fordyce Letter also recently tackled the subject of wrongful hiring…

“Workforce Planning” has become a hot catchphrase in the past few years, and as the economy continues its slow recovery, it is perhaps more important than ever that companies assess how they will move forward and who they will need…

If you are well versed in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) or have read our blog recently, you are already well aware that most employees must be paid at a rate of 1.5 times their regular pay rate for…

As we’ve discussed in several previous blog posts, most employees must be paid at a rate 1.5 times their regular rate when they work more than 40 hours in a work week per the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). But…