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Firm News: Employment Law Issues Update
As a continuing service to our clients, we attempt to periodically present Memoranda outlining our advice to our clients involving matters of significant consequence affecting their business activities. Our most recent prior memo was directed to the utilization of Employment Agreements and Company Policy Manuals as proper vehicles for setting forth the relationship between employers and employees, including the utilization of non-competition and confidentiality clauses. We are glad to note that that Memorandum was very well received by our clients and that many of them upgraded their hiring policies and procedures by adopting formal Employment Agreements and/or Policy Manuals.
We have now prepared a second confidential Memorandum directed to our business clients in respect to the Fair Labor Standards Act, particularly focusing on the area of overtime obligations, both Federal as well as a State level. Whereas the FLSA is addressed overall, we have particularly emphasized the obligation to pay overtime wages and distinguish between those employees who are exempt from overtime versus those who must be paid time and one-half for services in excess of forty hours per week, notwithstanding their job title.
We believe this is a critical Memorandum which our clients should review carefully. In that this extensive Memorandum (like our publication in respect to Employment Agreements) contains confidential comments and counseling to the benefit of our clients and, therefore, is subject to the attorney-client privilege of not being disclosed to third parties, our Firm's Memorandum has not been reprinted on our web site.
Should your organization require counseling on the subject of the Fair Labor Standards Act, Employment Agreements, Policy Manuals or other areas associated with Employment Law, please feel free to contact our office. Further, feel free to review our web site and our comments as to our practice in the area of Employment Law which includes more basic information of the services we provide to our client.
Joseph B. Jerome and Associates
55 Public Square
Suite 2020
Cleveland, Ohio 44113-1901
