Exempt Managers Spending Major Time on Nonmanagerial Duties May Not Affect Exempt Status

Posted on May 27, 2011 by Devora L. Lindeman, Esq.

The 4th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals (MD, VA, W. VA, NC, SC) provided a significant win for employers in today’s multiple-hat-wearing, everybody-rolls-up-their-sleeves-and-pitches-in style of management, by finding that a store manager who spent most of her time on non-managerial duties is nonetheless exempt from the overtime pay requirements.

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There's An App for That: DOL of iPhone/iPod/iPad App Helps Many Employees Track and Calculate What They're Owed

Posted on May 12, 2011 by Kevin M. Doherty, Esq.

Everyone’s an app developer these days, it seems—your poker buddy, your niece in college, the poorly socialized guy in IT, and the would-be software tycoon down the street, for example. Uncle Sam’s gotten into the act, too: the Department of Labor just released a smartphone timesheet app.

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