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Most employers are aware by now that the U. S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced sweeping changes to the regulations governing the "white collar" overtime exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The changes are slated to take effect August 23, 2004. -
In August 2004, Schwabe Williamson & Wyatt, PC, announced the first Nanotechnology and Microtechnology Practice Group in the Pacific Northwest. The announcement followed passage of the 21st Century Nanotechnology Research and Development Act by Congress in 2003. -
Introduction Federal, state and local governments routinely conduct on-site inspections of all types of facilities. -
Disclosure of Year 2000 Problems and Securities Liability In this section, we discuss disclosures that may. -
This is not an easy time to be a 401(k) plan fiduciary. With frightening regularity, attacks have been launched by government agencies and plan participants, some successfully, at fiduciaries. And never has the group of potential plan fiduciaries been so large. In fact, quite recently courts have defined plan fiduciaries to encompass an array of corporate employees who range from those who are responsible for the administration of the 401(k) plan to the highest levels of the corporation. -
The United States Department of Labor's long-anticipated, much debated revised regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") finally have been issued, and will take effect on August 23, 2004. The most notable change in the new regulations is a guarantee of overtime eligibility to all employees earning less than $23,660 per year, or $455 per week. Employees earning less than this amount will be "nonexempt" (i.e., subject to the overtime requirement), regardless of their duties. -
Senate Bill 179, which became effective January 1, 2004 as Labor Code Section 2810, substitutes a new doctrine of vicarious liability for the long-established separation between principal and independent contractor. It does so by making it unlawful for a person or entity to enter into an agreement for labor services with a construction, farm labor, garment, janitorial or security guard contractor, where the person or entity knows or should know that the agreement does not include funds sufficient to enable the contractor to comply with all applicable local, state and federal laws or regulations governing the labor or services to be provided. Proponents of the law may have been targeting certain well-known labor abuses, but the broad scope of the law, and its vague language, will raise issues for many "persons and entities" in California. -
The California Legislature, in a burst of "common sense" in its treatment of employers, has amended California's "bounty hunter" law to eliminate some of its more onerous provisions. These amendments, known as Senate Bill 1809, revise and amend the Labor Code's Private Attorneys General Act (Labor Code 2699) ("Act"), which has been making headlines again as a key issue in California's budget standoff. The Legislature struck a compromise and agreed to make major revisions to the Act in order to clear the way for the budget. -
Sexual harassment has receive widespread media attention over the past few years, first attaining national recognition with Anita Hill's testimony at the confirmation hearings of United States Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, and culminating with a jury verdict of $7,000,000 in the case involving a secretary's claims against a partner in the California law firm of Baker & Mackenzie. -
Employers are searching for new medical plan options to allow them to better manage runaway medical costs, which have in recent years outstripped inflation. Employers are also searching for vehicles that will force employees to become better consumers of medical services and that will permit employees to take some responsibility for their retiree medical costs.