by e-LawLines | Sep 25, 2017 | Employment Law, Small Business Law
In the final quarter of last year, many employers began frantic preparations in anticipation of a new DOL Overtime Rule that was to take effect December 1, 2016. This rule was to have raised the overtime salary-test exemption threshold from $23,600 to $46,476, meaning...
by e-LawLines | Aug 31, 2017 | Employment Law
The Missouri Court of Appeals recently noted that while cognizant of an employer facing challenging situations in our modern workforce, an employer must not demand as a condition of continued employment that an employee act contrary to her physical safety by...
by e-LawLines | Jul 7, 2017 | Employment Law
On May 5, 2017, an injunction on City of St. Louis Ordinance No. 70078 was lifted raising the minimum wage in the City of St. Louis to $10 per hour. However in the waning hours of the Missouri 2017 legislative session, the Missouri General Assembly passed House Bill...
by e-LawLines | Jun 12, 2017 | Employment Law
A recent federal court ruling demonstrates the important legal reality that judges will look beyond an employee’s title and, instead, examine the actual duties performed in determining whether there are overtime pay obligations under the Fair Labor Standards Act....
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...
