By Peter M. Panken, Michael S. Kun, Douglas Weiner and Larissa Lalor-Rosado
Hotels, restaurants and private clubs all rely on sponsored events, banquets and social soirees for the profitability of their operation. Most employ one or more “managers” to solicit the business, work with the clients, detail the services to be provided, prepare the contract and even negotiate a price. In most instances higher management must approve the terms the managers propose including the financial arrangements. In other cases the basic terms are set forth in directions which can only be varied ...
By Peter M. Panken, Michael S. Kun, Douglas Weiner, and Larissa Lalor-Rosado
Misclassification of employees as exempt from overtime compensation has become a cottage industry for plaintiff’s lawyers and for the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) in the Obama years. One of the most difficult issues is whether employees meet the so-called administrative exemption to the Wage Hour laws. In Hines v. State Room, the United States Circuit Court in New England offered some clarity and help to beleaguered employers holding that former banquet sales managers were exempt ...
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