For various business reasons, an employer may determine that it needs to move a full-time employee to part-time status. Before an employer makes such a determination, it should pause and carefully ...

Sid Lewis is a partner at Jones Walker and leader of the firm’s labor and employment practice group. As a labor and employment law attorney, misclassification is by far the most common mistake I see ...

The snowmagedden of last week left many employers unsure on some legal issues that arose from the snow, including whether they have to pay employees if the office is closed because of the weather.

Getting Fair Labor Standards Act compliance wrong can cost you. Get it right before someone files a complaint. You have a slacker exempt employee who just showed up three hours late, again. You dock ...

For nonprofits, certain activities and property uses may subject otherwise tax-exempt entities to taxation, something that often comes as a surprise to nonprofit leaders. “Because they are exempt from ...

Expedited studies are research projects that meet one of the categories under 46.110 and involve minimal risk. Full board studies are those the IRB determines does not fall under exempt or expedited ...

You have a slacker exempt employee who just showed up three hours late, again. You dock her pay, because fair is fair. Reasonable, right? Congratulations! You just broke a federal law. If she’s a ...