Vigilant Blog

Answer: You do so at your peril. You promised certain payments if your sales team met specified goals. If this individual already put in the work to fully achieve those goals, then you are risking a lawsuit if you make a last-minute modification to your commission payout. Words of Caution In a recent California case,…

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) is proposing to increase minimum salary levels under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) overtime exemption rules for executive, administrative, and professional employees. If the proposed rules are finalized, the DOL states that over a million current salaried exempt employees will be designated as nonexempt, making them eligible for…

A federal district court in Arizona recently ruled that employees must be paid for time spent studying for written tests that they were required to pass in order to complete on-the-job training. A group of long-haul truck drivers filed a lawsuit against their employer alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) with respect…

Not only must employers submit data on pay and hours worked during 2018 on the newly expanded EEO-1 Report by September 30, 2019, but they must also include pay and hours data from 2017. The requirement to provide pay and hours data applies to employers with 100 or more employees. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity…

Alert: 2018 EEO-1 Report pay and hours data due by September 30, 2019 September 30, 2019, is the deadline for employers with at least 100 employees to submit data via a soon-to-be-expanded EEO-1 Report on their employees’ hours worked and W-2 wages from 2018, a federal judge ruled yesterday. Here are the key points to…

Due to a technicality, the U.S. Supreme Court recently threw out the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ 2018 decision that barred employers from using prior salary history to justify paying employees less than their opposite-sex colleagues. The federal Equal Pay Act allows employers to explain pay differences between men and women performing equal work by…