Category: Minimum Wage
The Power Struggle is Real: Local Minimum Wages Battle State Minimum Wages and How Dillon’s Rule Affects the Playing Field
Municipalities all across the country have dived into the employment arena in the past few years. In an April 2016 publication by the National Employment Law Project, it was reported that 51 municipalities across the country have either passed or currently have pending, proposals to raise the minimum wage...
Casino Owner's "Seaman Exemption" On the Rocks in Georgia
We love boat cases! We also love it when our colleagues makes clever arguments, even if those arguments are a bit of a stretch. The casino ship Emerald Princess II hailed from the port of Brunswick, Georgia. On weekdays, she would take a boatload of adventure seekers on a...
Falling Prices, Rising Wages: Wal-Mart Announces $9.00 an Hour Minimum Pay Scale
Wal-Mart Chief Executive Officer Doug McMillon announced last week that in April Wal-Mart will pay its employees a minimum of $9.00 an hour—$1.75 more than the current federal minimum wage of $7.25. Going a step further, by February of 2016, Wal-Mart has announced that its lowest hourly rate of...
She’s Not a Beauty School Drop Out But She Could Be Creating A Cut and Color FLSA Nightmare
Earlier this week a District Court judge in the District of Nevada denied Defendants' Motion to Dismiss in an FLSA class action lawsuit. The case, Guy v. Casal Institute of Nevada , stems from allegations by the plaintiff that while attending a for-profit cosmetology and esthetics services school "which...
