This past summer yielded a slew of activity on the wage and hour front, including newly proposed regulations issued by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that will, if finalized, severely restrict the scope of the overtime exemptions for so-called white-collar workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
There was also a Second Circuit ruling addressing the exempt status of lawyers hired on a temporary basis to perform document reviews; another significant Second Circuit opinion interpreting the FLSA, this time in regard to the status of unpaid interns; and a new and clear warning from the head of the DOL’s Wage and Hour division that independent contractor classifications will be closely scrutinized by a watchful and skeptical eye. Management-side attorneys take note.
