by e-LawLines | May 15, 2017 | Employment Law
Toward the end of the Obama Administration, in May 2016, the Department of Labor finalized a rule that was to raise the salary test threshold for the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) from $23,660 to $47,476. That rule was to take effect December 1, 2016 but never went...
by e-LawLines | May 12, 2017 | Employment Law
“Skill to do comes of doing, knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson Little did Ralph Waldo Emerson know that his observation would foreshadow a recent decision from the Missouri...
by e-LawLines | May 5, 2017 | Employment Law
Today, May 5, 2017, the minimum wage in the City of St. Louis will increase to $10 per hour. City of St. Louis Ordinance No. 70078 was adopted in 2015 but was enjoined because of a lawsuit challenging the validity of the Ordinance; this injunction was lifted...
by e-LawLines | Mar 29, 2017 | Homeowner Associations, Real Estate Law
In 2014 the Missouri Legislature passed, and then-Gov. Nixon signed into law, an amendment to the Missouri Uniform Condominium Act, which granted condominium associations the right to collect up to six months of delinquent common expense assessments as a...
by e-LawLines | Mar 17, 2017 | Employment Law
There has been a significant uptick in employment of physicians by large physician groups, hospitals, and health care systems since the changes in health care reform that occurred during the Obama Administration. As a result, more and more physicians are entering...
