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2019 Spring Training Camp Album
View photos from our 2019 Labor, Employment, and Workers’ Compensation Spring Training Camp!
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SCOTUS Will Hear Three LGBTQ – Title VII Cases
The United States Supreme Court announced today that it will hear three significant sex discrimination cases regarding Title VII’s coverage of sexual orientation and transgender status discrimination during the High Court’s next term. Altitude Express v. Zarda and Bostock v. Clayton Cty, will consider Title VII’s coverage of sexual orientation discrimination. In the third case granted today, R.G. & G.R. Harris Funeral Homes, Inc. v.
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Bugbee & Conkle, LLP is a small, but, busy law firm concentrating its practice in workers’ compensation, safety, and labor & employment defense. Bugbee & Conkle represents employers in a variety of administrative agencies and courts throughout Ohio.
Supreme Court Remands Equal Pay Act Case
On February 25, 2019, the United States Supreme Court remanded a case captioned Yovino v. Rizo to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. In Yovino, the Ninth Circuit held that a company’s utilization of a female employee’s prior salary as a factor in paying her less than a male counterpart violated the Equal Pay Act.
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DOL Sets New Overtime Rule Exemption Threshold
The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its highly anticipated overtime rule, raising the minimum salary threshold required for workers to qualify for the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA) white-collar exemptions to $35,308 per year. The rule will boost the standard salary level from $455 to $679 per week.
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The FLSA requires employers to pay employees overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.
Department of Labor Update
On March 14, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor released new opinion letters that addressed compliance issues related to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). An opinion letter is an official, written opinion by the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division on how a particular law applies to a specific circumstance.
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The newest FMLA opinion letter clarifies whether employers can let workers take paid leave in lieu of FMLA Leave.
