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The United States Department of Labor (DOL) holds significant discretion over how the companionship exemption is interpreted and applied in the workplace. Under the DOL's current interpretation, the companionship exemption applies to most home care workers (also known as personal care assistants), allowing their employers—unless they are in a state with regulations superseding those at the ...
The bill would have amended the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to $10.10 per hour over the course of a two-year period. [75] The bill was strongly supported by President Barack Obama and many of the Democratic senators, but strongly opposed by Republicans in the Senate and House. [76 ...
The Minimum Wage Fairness Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 (FLSA) to increase the federal minimum wage for employees to: (1) $8.20 an hour beginning on the first day of the sixth month after the enactment of this Act, (2) $9.15 an hour beginning one year after the date of such initial increase, (3) $10.10 an hour beginning ...
A federal judge in Texas on Friday permanently blocked a Biden administration rule that would have made about 4 million more salaried U.S. workers eligible for overtime pay. U.S. District Judge ...
The Social Security program seems to face constant changes -- especially lately. A new Social Security reform bill (HR-4583) was recently introduced to the House of Representatives, and could ...
The cap is beyond reach for most people -- for 2024, it's $168,600. This means that someone earning $168,600 and someone earning, say, $33,168,600, will pay the same amount in taxes to Social ...
Whether the burden of proof that employers must satisfy to demonstrate the applicability of a Fair Labor Standards Act exemption is a mere preponderance of the evidence or clear and convincing evidence. June 17, 2024: November 5, 2024 EPA v. Calumet Shreveport Refining: 23-1229
While in 2023 earnings up to $160,200 were subject to this tax, in 2024 that threshold increased to earnings of up to $168,600. In 2025, per CNBC, that figure will increase once more, to 176,100 ...