Terminated Sales Manager Demands Unpaid Commissions
December 05, 2007—A regional sales manager who lived in Maryland but worked in Virginia for a Florida-based company lost her job when her employer was acquired by another firm. Since she had initiated several sales before she was terminated, she felt she was owed additional commissions on those sales. She felt so strongly, in fact, that she sued.
Appeals Court Upholds Ruling that Struck Down 'Wal-Mart' Law
January 18, 2007—The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit has upheld a ruling that prohibited Maryland from enforcing a law that would have required Wal-Mart to pay at least 8 percent of its payroll on healthcare benefits or pay the difference to the state.
Dept. of Labor Says BMW's FLSA Compliance Needed Tune-Up
August 02, 2006—BMW has agreed to pay $629,869 in overtime back wages to 1,224 workers in Spartanburg, South Carolina, to settle a Department of Labor lawsuit alleging violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Appeals Court Says Waiver of FMLA Rights Unenforceable
August 04, 2005—The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals has ruled that a Department of Labor regulation
barring a waiver of an employee's rights under the Family and Medical Leave
Act applies to all rights under the act.
Wage & Hour Complaints and Investigations—News—South Carolina
Change at the Top in Wage & Hour Division
June 14, 2004—Alfred Burgess Robinson, Jr. has been named acting administrator of the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division Robinson succeeds Tammy McCutchen, who won widespread praise in business and HR circles for the way she oversaw the DOL's rewriting of the overtime-exemption regulations in the Fair Labor Standards Act.
