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• Beware of Wage and Hour Class Actions ( February 2003 )
  

  In October 2001, Perdue Farms, Inc., a chicken processing company, paid $10 million to a group of its employees to settle a lawsuit.  The suit was premised upon a simple, yet costly proposition:  Perdue had failed to compensate its employees for the time that they spent putting on, taking off, and cleansing their sanitary equipment.

• Guidelines for Evaluating Whether or Not Employees Satisfythe Executive, Administrative and Professional Exemptions from the Wage andHour Laws ( November 2002 )
  

  Federal law and most state wage/hour laws contain exemptions from overtime requirements for executive, administrative and professional employees (the so-called "white collar exemptions"). Where the exemptions apply, employers can avoid significant overtime costs and - often more importantly - these exemptions provide a great deal of flexibility for scheduling employees.

• Show Me the Money: Wage and Hour Lawsuits Soaring in Popularity ( September 2002 )
  

  Within the past year, the number of lawsuits filed by employees seeking to recover unpaid overtime wages has dramatically risen, and in many states have actually surpassed the number of discrimination lawsuits filed by employees.

• Wage Games: Law On Docking Exempt Employees' Salaries Is In Flux ( August 2001 )
  

  Determining whether employees are exempt from certain wage-and-hour laws is not easy. Determining when an employer can dock an exempt employee's salary while maintaining the exemption is even more difficult.

• Wage Withholding Under the North Carolina Wage and Hour Act ( January 2001 )
  

  This article summarizes North Carolina's wage and hour act for wage withholding.

• Three Overtime Nightmares ( December 2000 )
  

  Most employers understand their basic obligation to pay overtime compensation. They know there are "exempt" employ.

• Federal and State Statutes Pertaining to Termination, Discharge, Overtime and Wages ( November 2000 )
  

  Have you been terminated or discharged? Do you feel that your discharge was motivat.

• Employment Law Alert: Worker Economic Opportunity Act Permits Employers to Exclude from Regular Rate of Pay Value and Income from Employee Stock Options Pursuant to Certain Plans ( October 2000 )
  

  On May 18, 2000, President Clinton signed into law the Worker Economic Opportunity Act, P.L. 106-202 (the "Act"). .

• Navigating the Fair Labor Standards Act ( September 2000 )
  

  In the Fall, 1998 edition of the Stein Sperling Employment Law Digest, some of the more common pitfalls associated .