Andrew A. Smith
Associate
Andrew A. Smith is an associate in the Labor & Employment Law Department and a member of the Employment Litigation & Arbitration and Wage and Hour Groups.
Andrew focuses on defending employers in wage-and-hour class and collective actions. He has experience defeating certification and conditional certification in multiple states, as well as experience defending certified and conditionally certified class and collective actions involving claims by exempt and non-exempt employees.
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Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced the upcoming launch of a “new” pilot program called the Payroll Audit Independent Determination program (“PAID”). Under PAID, employers can come forward voluntarily to disclose wage and hour violations to the DOL, the DOL will supervise a settlement of any monetary claims … Continue Reading
The DOL will appeal a Texas federal court’s ruling that the Obama administration’s 2016 overtime rule exceeded the DOL’s authority. The appeal comes nearly two months after the DOL dropped an earlier appeal of that court’s preliminary injunction on the same topic. The 2016 overtime rule would have required employers to pay most executive, administrative, … Continue Reading
The U.S. Department of Labor has announced that on Wednesday, July 26, 2017, it will formally seek public comment on the overtime rule by publishing a Request for Information (RFI). The overtime rule would have required employers to pay most executive, administrative, and professional employees at least $913 per week in order to exempt them … Continue Reading
