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A new online resource, the “Knowledge Network,” provides more than 25,000 loca lgovernment professionals from across the world with tools and resources to promote best practices and innovation in local government.
The Knowledge Network is the result of a partnership of the Alliance for Innovation, Arizona State University’s School of Public Affairs, and the International City/County Management Association (ICMA). The network offers information to the public, but provides additional features to all government employees who work for municipalities which are members of the ICMA, as well as Alliance for Innovation members. Available at: www.transformgov.org/knowledge_network
Read more: Alliance for Innovation Press Release: New Website & Knowledge Network
What does this mean for employers? The DOL’s change of course comes at a particularly bad time for employers. The FLSA, which establishes federal minimum wage and overtime requirements, is more in fashion now among the plaintiff’s bar than at any time since it was passed in 1938. Federal court statistics show that the volume of FLSA cases grew almost 13 percent between 2008 and 2009 alone. Many of those cases were "collective actions" brought by large groups of employees. Such cases can be lucrative to plaintiff’s attorneys and devastating to employers.
Read more: US Department of Labor to Issue No Further Opinion Letters
The federal Department of Labor. which is charged with administering and enforcing the Fair Labor Standards Act, announced last month that it is ending its decades-old practice of issuing opinion letters explaining how the federal wage and hour law applies to specific scenarios faced by employers. The DOL instead will issue occasional broad pronouncements called "Administrator Interpretations" that will summarize the agency’s "general interpretations" of the FLSA, but will not explain how the law applies to specific facts.
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