Yesterday the Department of Labor released a long-awaited proposal on federal overtime laws that would make more workers overtime eligible. The newly proposed overtime law would set the threshold salary for overtime at $679 per week, meaning that an employee earning $679 per week or less that would otherwise be exempt under the Fair Labor...
n 2014 Governor Scott Walker signed into law A.B. 726, a bill that exempted individuals with seizure disorders from criminal penalties for using and possessing cannabidiol (CBD), a component found in marijuana. Walker then signed Act 4 in 2017, expanding the law to include patients with any medical condition. Any individual with a letter from...
A recent decision by the Seventh Circuit has altered the landscape of how employees/contractors are determined. In Simpkins v. DuPage Housing Authority, Anthony Simkins was a general laborer that signed “independent contractor agreements” with the DuPage Housing Authority in 2009 and 2012 to perform general labor on some vacant properties. The job was full time...
Non-solicitation agreements are provisions included in most employment contracts to prevent an employee from leaving the company, going to work for a competitor, and poaching the employer’s clients, prospective clients or employees. Non-solicitation agreements differ from non-compete agreements in that while a non-solicitation agreement focuses more on preventing the employee that is leaving from bringing...
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