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Michael D. Considine

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Michael D. Considine is an Associate in Vedder Price’s Chicago office and a member of the firm’s Labor & Employment group. His practice focuses on labor and employment law, assisting companies with a variety of employment matters, including workplace investigations, leave and accommodation issues, discrimination and wage and hour disputes, and employee handbooks.

On April 1, 2025, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit issued an important decision in Pickens v. Hamilton-Ryker IT Solutions, LLC regarding what it means to be paid on a “weekly basis” for purposes of the salary-basis test, a key factor in determining whether an employee is properly classified as “exempt” from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) overtime requirements.Continue Reading Sixth Circuit Clarifies Requirements for a Salaried Employee to Be “Paid on a Weekly Basis” Under the FLSA.

On February 12, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Oregon issued an important decision in Porteous v. Flowers Foods, Inc. regarding the enforceability of class and collective action waivers contained in otherwise unenforceable arbitration agreements.Continue Reading Federal District Court Says Class and Collective Action Waiver Survives Unenforceable Arbitration Agreement

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In August 2024, we reported on the highly anticipated opinion in Restaurant Law Center v. U.S. Department of Labor, 115 F.4th 396 (5th Cir. 2024), in which the Fifth Circuit vacated the 2021 Dual Jobs Final Rule as arbitrary, capricious, and contrary to the text of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In light of that decision, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently published a new Final Rule eliminating the 2021 Dual Jobs Final Rule—commonly referred to as the “80/20/30” rule—from the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). This is a technical amendment that reinstates the DOL’s original dual jobs regulation and restores the CFR to its pre-2021 language based on the 1967 dual jobs regulation.Continue Reading DOL Returns to Prior Dual Jobs Regulation for Tipped Employees