Tag: employee classification

Employers can learn lessons from DOL’s FLSA woes

By Tammy Binford Sep 7, 2016 HR Hero Line

Updated: Jan 7, 2018

Many thought it ironic in mid-August when news broke that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) had agreed to a $7 million settlement in a 10-year-old dispute with its own employees and their union. The same agency charged with policing how employers comply with the wage and hour law apparently had compliance problems of its […]

Starbucks Gets a Triple Shot of Damages as $14.1 Million Wage-and-Hour Award Upheld

By Khristine Scholtz Nov 14, 2012 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: Nov 14, 2012

The penalties for noncompliance with state wage-and-hour laws can be more onerous than that under federal law, which coffee company Starbucks learned the hard way. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals recently rejected the company’s appeal of a $14.1 million judgment, finding it had misclassified its shift supervisors under a Massachusetts law and upholding […]