by Jim Nowogrocki | Sep 28, 2017 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog
A Missouri federal court has entered an injunction stopping a former national sales director from taking a position with a competitor company in the pharmacy services industry, finding that the disclosure of confidential information such as customer information and...
by Morgan Taylor | Sep 25, 2017 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog, Small Business Blog, Small Business Law
In the final quarter of last year, many employers began frantic preparations in anticipation of a new DOL Overtime Rule that was to take effect December 1, 2016. This rule was to have raised the overtime salary-test exemption threshold from $23,600 to $46,476, meaning...
by Jim Nowogrocki | Aug 31, 2017 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog
The Missouri Court of Appeals recently noted that while cognizant of an employer facing challenging situations in our modern workforce, an employer must not demand as a condition of continued employment that an employee act contrary to her physical safety by...
by Morgan Taylor | Jul 7, 2017 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog, Uncategorized
On May 5, 2017, an injunction on City of St. Louis Ordinance No. 70078 was lifted raising the minimum wage in the City of St. Louis to $10 per hour. However in the waning hours of the Missouri 2017 legislative session, the Missouri General Assembly passed House Bill...
by Jim Nowogrocki | Jun 12, 2017 | Employment Law, Employment Law Blog, Uncategorized
A recent federal court ruling demonstrates the important legal reality that judges will look beyond an employee’s title and, instead, examine the actual duties performed in determining whether there are overtime pay obligations under the Fair Labor Standards Act....
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...