The Department of Labor recently issued an updated rule increasing the minimum salary requirements for employees to be exempt from overtime under the executive, administrative, and professional exemptions.

The Department of Labor recently issued a new rule that is expected to help workers challenge their classification as independent contractors for purposes of receiving overtime and the minimum wage.

Frankel Syverson PLLC lawyer Ty Frankel participates in employment law phone bank on ABC15 Arizona and gets interviewed about unpaid wage issues.

Frankel Syverson PLLC lawyers have been appointed as counsel on behalf of a class of employees seeking to recover 60 days’ worth of compensation and benefits in a lawsuit alleging that the company they worked for failed to provide them advance notice of a mass layoff as required by the WARN Act.

In a case brought by the lawyers at Frankel Syverson PLLC, a Judge in the District of Arizona denied Maricopa County’s Motion to Dismiss a lawsuit filed by a Patrol Lieutenant seeking unpaid overtime. The Judge also ruled that the case was conditionally certified as an FLSA collective action, so that Notice could go out to the Patrol Lieutenants who comprise the collective giving them a chance to join the case.