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SBA Disaster Loans

Alex Paterra March 20, 2020 No Comments

Some 30 million American small businesses have become some of the first victims of the Coronavirus. In an effort to help business owners find relief the U.S. Small Business Administration [...]

President Trump signs into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act

Alex Paterra March 19, 2020 No Comments

Yesterday, March 18, 2020, President Donald Trump signed into law the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. The law provides free COVID-19 screening, paid leave, and enhanced unemployment insurance benefits for [...]

COVID-19: Top Questions and Answers for Small Businesses

Alex Paterra March 18, 2020 No Comments

As the U.S. tightens restrictions regarding the spread of COVID-19 many business, especially small to medium size businesses, are struggling with how to manage the current restrictions with their employees and [...]

S.C. Governor Issues New Order regarding Coronavirus

Alex Paterra March 18, 2020 No Comments

Late Tuesday, March 17, 2020, S.C. Governor Henry McMaster issued the following orders. These are not requests, but mandates which must be followed: Restaurants and bars must close dine in service starting [...]

DOL Wage and Hour Division Announces Record Year

Alex Paterra November 11, 2019 4 Comments

On October 31, 2019, the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has announced that in Fiscal Year 2019 it recovered a record $322 million of wages owed to [...]

DOL issues Final Overtime Rule

Alex Paterra September 24, 2019 No Comments

Today the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued the final rule raising the salary requirement under the FLSA making employee who make less than $35,568 eligible for overtime pay. The new [...]

Employers Must Submit EEO-1 Pay Data by Sept. 30

Alex Paterra April 26, 2019 No Comments

The U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia has ordered the EEOC to collect employee pay data—sorted by race, ethnicity and sex—by Sept. 30. The EEOC said it will [...]

DOL Releases overtime Update Proposal

Alex Paterra March 11, 2019 No Comments

The U.S. Department of Labor announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that would make more than a million more American workers eligible for overtime. Under the current law, employees [...]

New DOL Opinion Letter addressing FLSA and FMLA

Alex Paterra May 8, 2018 No Comments

On April 12, 2018, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued an opinion letter addressing the intersection between the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and the Family and Medical Leave Act [...]

Supreme Court Adopts Broader View of FLSA Exemptions

Alex Paterra April 13, 2018 No Comments

On April 2, 2018, U.S. Supreme Court in Encino Motorcars, LLC v. Hector Navarro, et al, held that automobile dealership “service advisors” are exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) [...]

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