by Morgan Taylor | May 15, 2017 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog
Toward the end of the Obama Administration, in May 2016, the Department of Labor finalized a rule that was to raise the salary test threshold for the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) from $23,660 to $47,476. That rule was to take effect December 1, 2016 but never went...
by Jim Nowogrocki | May 12, 2017 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog
“Skill to do comes of doing, knowledge comes by eyes always open, and working hands; and there is no knowledge that is not power.” Ralph Waldo Emerson Little did Ralph Waldo Emerson know that his observation would foreshadow a recent decision from the Missouri Court...
by Morgan Taylor | Mar 17, 2017 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog, Uncategorized
There has been a significant uptick in employment of physicians by large physician groups, hospitals, and health care systems since the changes in health care reform that occurred during the Obama Administration. As a result, more and more physicians are entering...
by Jim Nowogrocki | Mar 1, 2017 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog
The width of the Mississippi River is 1,880 feet as it glides past The Gateway Arch, forming a watery boundary between Missouri and Illinois. These states are also separated in their approach for the legal requirements of a non-compete agreement between an employer...
by Jim Nowogrocki | Feb 8, 2017 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog
The complex issue of dealing with an employee’s medical condition under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) ended up recently before a federal court judge who ruled that the plaintiff’s complaint had stated a claim for relief. The plaintiff alleged that her...
by Jim Nowogrocki | Dec 1, 2016 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog, Uncategorized
A federal district judge has issued an injunction that the U.S. Department of Labor’s final rule increasing the minimum salary level to qualify for “exempt” status under the FLSA will not take effect as scheduled for Dec. 1, 2016. Judge Amos Mazzant of the U.S....
