"Economic Realities" Test Determines Worker Status in Washington
In today’s post, HT&T team member Diana Shukis (Employment and Litigation) discusses the appropriate test, as determined by a recent Washington state appellate court decision, to decide whether a...
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Avoiding Pitfalls with Unpaid Internships
To Pay or Not to Pay? As the school year begins again, it is a great time for hoteliers to think about their unpaid internship programs. Unpaid internships can be great symbiotic relationships....
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Sharing is Daring under Browning-Ferris
Bernice Johnson Blessing is an Associate in GSB’s Labor and Employment, and Hospitality and Corporate Law practice group. She is also the newest member of the hospitality team and has had a...
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Is Your Tip Pool Policy a Recipe for Trouble?
In a recent blog post, we highlighted the trend amongst hoteliers and restaurateurs toward adopting service charge models to meet the rise in state and local minimum wage requirements. Although...
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Bad News for Employers: In a Surprise, Ninth Circuit Upholds Tip Pooling...
In the latest of a series of twists and turns regarding the legality of certain tip pools in Western states, on February 23, 2016, a divided three judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals...
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The Wait Is Over – The New Overtime Rules Are Here: The Reconfiguration of...
The good news is the long awaited rule on overtime has arrived – finally. The proposed rule goes into effect on December 1, 2016. The quick summary is the changes aren’t quite as bad as everyone...
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Still Looming – The Regulations Regarding Overtime Exemptions
When we last visited this topic, the proposed regulations revising the overtime exemptions were still very new. The regulations are due to go into effect on December 1 of this year. There has been...
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What Employment Law Changes Should We Expect From the Trump Administration?...
If you had asked me one month ago to predict the winner of the presidential election, I would have been wrong. Therefore, rather than make my own [ill-fated] predictions of the changes that await...
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Direct Employer or Joint Employer – Isn’t Employment Just Employment?
Both the courts and the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) seem to keep changing the definitions of joint employment. It is no wonder this has left employers scratching their head about the...
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The Tip Pooling Saga: What Employers Need to Know with Tip Pooling Being...
Just when it seemed that service charges were all the rage, tip pooling has reemerged to grab the headlines. Making the rounds from courts to agencies, and now Congress, the issue appears to have been...
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