Reading Review: Wage and hour and employment blogs
Professionals are looking more and more to social media and informal news sources to find engaging and relevant information on their industry. Employment attorneys, HR specialists, and legal academics have an abundance of blogs to provide them with the most up-to-date employment law and wage and hour information. In today’s post, we’ll explore a number of those blogs and what they’ve been writing about recently.
Epstein Becker & Green creates content for over a dozen topical blogs, including their ‘Wage & Hour Defense Blog‘, which offers insight and commentary on legal developments affecting employers. Recent posts have explored arbitration agreements, mortgage-loan officers’ entitlement to overtime, on-call rest periods, and meal period wavers. The blog also has links to state-specific and federal wage and hour guides. Other employment related blogs they write include ‘Health Employment and Labor‘, ‘Retail Labor and Employment Law‘, ‘Technology Employment Law‘.
Another employer-focused blog is Seyfarth Shaw’s ‘Wage & Hour Litigation Blog‘. It focuses on court decisions, legislative updates, and DOL compliance. Its recent articles have explored mortgage loan officers exemption status, proposed overtime regulations, DOL’s investigation of retailers’ relationships with janitors.
Washington D.C. plaintiff employment attorney Robert Fitzpatrick writes a blog that explores a wider range of employment law topics than just wage and hour. His most recent topics have been complex FLSA questions, and accent discrimination in the workplace. He offers a thorough list of blogs dedicated to related topics, if you are looking to read a wide cross-section of plaintiff focused employment blogs.
Littler’s ‘Wage & Hour Counsel‘ is a simple, no-frills blog that tracks developments in wage and hour class action law. Recent posts involve 24-hour home care attendants’ sleep and meal periods, changes to payroll cards and server tip credits.
Los Angeles based mediator Steven G. Pearl writes ‘The California Employment Law Blog‘. He has a unique point of view with 20 years of litgation experience working with both plaintiffs and defendants. Pearl’s most recent articles have explored Martinez v. Joe’s Crab Shack, Walgreen’s overtime cases, and whistleblower statutes. The blog features a ‘watch list’ of pending wage and hour cases of interest he advises keeping an eye on.
Paul DeCamp of Jackson Lewis produces ‘Wage & Hour Law Update‘ . Recent posts have covered such topics as the FLSA classification of sales advisors and unpaid sixth day of work. The firm writes a number of other blogs, including ‘Employment class & collective action update‘ and ‘Healthcare workplace update‘.
Plaintiff attorney Andrew Frisch writes ‘Overtime Law Blog | FLSA Decisions‘, where he writes in-depth pieces about relevant cases. He has recently written about the non-exempt status of armored car drivers, underreporting hours, and the exemption status of mortgage loan officers.
For a slightly different perspective on employment law, visit ‘Workplace prof blog‘, written by a group of six professors at different universities. Their blog includes information on upcoming conferences, case studies (a recent post explored Wal-Mart’s class actions), and academic articles that offer analysis of employment law issues such as gender discrimination and crowd work and volunteerism.
Finally, an economic expert, Dwight Steward, Ph.D.‘s blog ‘Economic thinking in action‘ pays attention to wage and hour issues, and broader employment matters. He offers the perspective of an expert witness, with articles about data, statistical evidence, and methodology used in employment litigation analysis.
