The United States Department of Labor is not enforcing its new overtime rule, which raised the minimum weekly salary an employee must make to be exempt from overtime in a two-step process. The first step raised the salary threshold effective … Read more

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires all employers to pay employees time-and-one-half their regular rate of pay for all hours over 40 that employees work in a given week, unless an employee satisfies the FLSA’s salary basis test and … Read more

Under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), employers must grant eligible employees a total of up to twelve workweeks of job-protected, unpaid leave during any twelve-month period for any of the following reasons: the birth of a child; the … Read more

This is the second part of an exploration of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA). In the first part of this series, we explored the types of pregnancy-related conditions covered under the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) and the requirements … Read more

On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued new regulations governing how to determine whether a worker is an employee for Fair Labor Standards Act overtime purposes or whether they qualify as an independent contractor (sometimes called … Read more

While Title VII, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), and the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) already offer some protections for pregnant workers, the new federal Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) fills in some key gaps. In a nutshell, … Read more

It’s bad enough that employment laws have such confusing acronyms – FLSA, FMLA, ADEA, ADA – but why do they have to use different terms for the same thing? Don’t “serious health condition” and “disability” refer to the same thing? … Read more

I’ll be the first to admit that my annual property tax calendar, while useful, can also be sleep inducing.  To help keep you awake while reading the newly published 2025 calendar, below I highlight some of the more “exciting” (loosely … Read more

While the response to Hurricane Helene continues, local governments are looking ahead to the long road to recovery. In a report issued by the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM), Hurricane Helene Recovery Recommendations: Preliminary Damage and … Read more

While the response to Hurricane Helene continues, local governments are looking ahead to the long road to recovery. In a report issued by the North Carolina Office of State Budget and Management (OSBM), Hurricane Helene Recovery Recommendations: Preliminary Damage and … Read more