Employers often ask the question, “If I have a rule prohibiting employees from working overtime, can I refuse to pay them for the unauthorized work?”
Updating our post from April 8 discussing the topic of whether internships can be unpaid under the Fair Labor Standards Act, today the United States Department of Labor released a new fact sheet on this topic.
Fact Sheet 71 entitled “Internship Programs under the Fair Labor Standards Act” discusses generally the six-part test outlined in our ...
Questions this time of year about internships and generally hiring students and others to work temporarily for the summer are common. This month, a rather public discussion has been spurred by a Policy Memorandum issued this week by the Economic Policy Institute entitled “Not So Equal Protection: Reforming the Regulation of Student Internships,” which calls for ...
We commonly advise employers who are dealing with the issue of short breaks for non-exempt employees. These questions often arise in the context of “smoke breaks” made available to employees who are permitted to step outside during the work day to smoke cigarettes. From time to time, employees who do not smoke complain that smokers ...