Misclassifying employees to save money in the short term can result in employers paying huge monetary penalties and fines if caught violating the Federal Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”), or state law equivalent. This does not include the added penalty of individual lawsuits from private
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Scraping The Bottom Of The Barrel
Wall Street is getting a lot of attention these days and understandably so. After all, investors are rattled. Historically, December has been a good
A Lesson From A Scorpion
A scorpion enlists a frog to take him on his back across a stream, even though the frog is astute enough to protest that the scorpion “will surely
Sticking our Head in the Sand
Poor ostriches get the unfair treatment; we make fun of them for burying their heads when danger is lurking. In fact, the common phrase “don’t stick
Saying No Isn’t Going To Cut It In Congress In 2019
2018 is ending on a very volatile and troubling note. The country is in a state of uncertainty with the stock market swinging from extreme low to
All Aboard – Hopefully
Lots of New Yorkers are grumbling about the city’s deteriorating subway system, and with good reason. Increasingly, trains are becoming dirtier, more
President Trump Means Business
I was struck by the headline of a recent opinion piece by Michael Goodwin in the New York Post that read “A year after Trump’s Jerusalem declaration
