More FLSA Common Sense from the 5th Circuit - Settlement Without Supervision OK

After lamenting for some time the direction which FLSA law has been heading, it may be too soon to say that the inevitable swing back to the...

Function Over Form: The Supreme Court's Realistic View of the FLSA

For those who think that one of the travesties of the recent history of employment law has been the explosion of FLSA collective action liti...

The 9th Circuit Does Their Part On Oracle Case, Extending California Labor Laws

One of the issues that I think has the potential to cause a lot of trouble for employers is the application of one state's labor and emp...

Maybe Not So Ho Hum at the Supreme Court: FLSA and Wal-Mart v. Dukes

In addition to denying cert on the USERRA hostile environment case (see yesterday's post ), the Supreme Court yesterday also reversed an...

Now an iPhone App for Wage and Hour Litigation

This is clearly a first for this blog. A link to the apple app store. But when the Department of Labor releases an app for iPhone, iPod and ...

A Ray of Sanity in the FLSA Collective Action Morass: Half-pay in Misclassification Cases

Given the overwhelming number of FLSA collective actions that continue to be filed, it is hard to find very much encouraging news, but one r...

Polyglot for Wage and Hour Administrator

Almost two years into his term, President Obama is making a 2nd try at an Administrator for the Wage and Hour division of the Department of ...

Another Interesting Development from Last Tuesday - $4 MDV for FLSA Retaliation

While most eyes were turned to the election results last Tuesday night, a former Los Angeles policeman was enjoying a $4 million dollar ver...