Governor Josh Shapiro has signed the “Fair Contracting for Health Care Practitioner’s Act” (“the Act”), Pennsylvania’s first statute imposing limitations on the use of non-competes in the Commonwealth. Pennsylvania joins the growing list of a dozen states which have enacted legislative bans or limitations on healthcare provider non-competition agreements in recent years. The Act, which […]

On April 23, 2024, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced long-awaited revisions to overtime regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The most important change will allow many more workers to receive overtime pay because the DOL raised the minimum salary that employees must receive before they can ever be exempt from overtime under the recognized […]

February 2024 The State of New Jersey has recently filed a lawsuit under a 2021 law permitting it to directly sue employers in court for misclassifying workers as independent contractors. The complaint was filed against shipping and logistics companies STG Logistics, Inc. and STG Drayage LLC. The State seeks to recover up to millions of dollars in back wages, […]