Kelsey Cropper

Jul 12, 2024 | jdsupra.com | Kelsey Cropper |Neal Fisher Jr. |Javier Garcia |Javier García

Over the years, California’s Private Attorneys General Act of 2004 (PAGA) has provided a procedurally convenient means for employees to seek expansive penalties for employers’ alleged violations of California’s very technical wage-and-hour regulations. Historically, such recovery has been available without employees having to establish actual injury, commonality, or standing in the same ways required in class or individual actions brought under different theories.

Sep 1, 2023 | lexblog.com | Jill L. Ripke |Chris Wilkinson |Kelsey Cropper

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on August 30, 2023, which proposes revisions to the regulations issued under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The proposed rule seeks to increase the federal minimum salary threshold required for employees to qualify as exempt employees to roughly $55,000 per year. White-Collar ExemptionsThe FLSA generally provides that employees are entitled to overtime pay unless they are exempt employees.

Mar 3, 2023 | lexblog.com | Danielle Ryman |Jill L. Ripke |Chris Wilkinson |Kelsey Cropper

Chris Wilkinson maintains a broad litigation and advice practice in labor and employment, wage-and-hour, federal contractor compliance, equal pay, government relations, and administrative law.

Mar 3, 2023 | jdsupra.com | Kelsey Cropper |Jill L. Ripke |Danielle Ryman

Recently, in Helix Energy Solutions Group v. Hewitt, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that a daily-rate worker who earned over $200,000 annually was not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime requirements. In an opinion authored by Justice Elena Kagan, the Court held that compensation based on a daily rate did not satisfy the “salary basis test,” which is required for an employee to be exempt from overtime compensation.