Earlier this week, President Obama and the U.S. Department of Labor announced long-awaited revisions to overtime regulations under federal law.  The most important change will allow millions of workers to receive overtime pay because the DOL has raised the minimum salary that employees must receive before they can ever be exempt from overtime.  Under the revised regulations, […]

Archer will sponsor the upcoming Chamber of Commerce of Southern New Jersey seminar, “HR Boot Camp” on March 1, 2016 from 8:00am – 12:00pm. Topics will include the following: Employee Handbooks in 2016 – What’s the Latest? Peter L. Frattarelli, Esq., Archer P.C.  Employee handbooks are the starting point for all employer policies, but the legal requirements […]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, which covers Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware, issued a ruling in McMaster v. Eastern Armored Services, Inc. (3d Cir. Mar. 11, 2015), which not only limits the applicability of an important overtime exemption for employees of motor carriers, but which may significantly complicate employers’ use of […]

In a July 2013 Alert, we reported on the United States Supreme Court’s landmark case of United States v. Windsor, wherein the Court declared that Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) was unconstitutional. The invalidation of DOMA’s definitions of “marriage” and “spouse” granted same-sex couples a host of federal benefits that they […]

Employers should ensure that their independent contractor relationships satisfy the very strict requirements of the New Jersey “ABC” test. On January 14, 2015, the New Jersey Supreme Court issued a decision which confirms the New Jersey Department of Labor’s position that the very restrictive “ABC” test for independent contractor status must be used in resolving […]