Seyfarth to Liveblog Senate HELP Committee Hearing on Minimum Wage

Posted by: Seyfarth Shaw's Wage & Hour Litigation Practice Group on March 08, 2013

Please join us on Thursday, March 14 at 10:00 AM ET as we liveblog the Senate HELP Committee’s hearing on “Keeping up with a Changing Economy: Indexing the Minimum Wage.” Seyfarth's Alexander Passantino, former Acting Administrator and Deputy Administrator of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, will give real-time analysis of the hearing and take questions from liveblog participants.

The liveblogging will take place on this blog.  Please register to receive a reminder on the day of the event.

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Update to "Thanks Albany": Labor Law Amendment Expands Permissible Deductions From Employees' Wages

Posted by: Seyfarth Shaw's Wage & Hour Litigation Practice Group on September 14, 2012

Co-authored by Rob Whitman & Carlos Lopez

On September 7, 2012, Governor Cuomo signed an amendment to the New York Labor Law that loosens restrictions on employers’ ability to make authorized deductions from employees’ wages.  We reported on the amendments, the most significant of which allow employers to recoup pay advances and inadvertent overpayments, back on June 27 [include link], but, at the time, Gov. Cuomo had yet to sign.

The new law takes effect November 6, 2012, but employers should hold off on changing their policies with respect to recouping advances and inadvertent overpayments until the New York Department of Labor issues pertinent regulations as it is now required to do.

For more details on the amendment, see our One Minute Memo.

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