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Most young people cannot conceive that they might die in the near future. Younger people, particularly those with minor children, have as great or greater need to have a will as older folks do. Failure to take care of estate planning can cost 10's of thousands of dollars in expenses which could have been avoided.

First Proposed Revision - Salary Basis Test: One issue raised is that the $455/wk. salary is too low to justify exempting many workers from receiving overtime for many socalled white collar workers. This wage amounts to $23,600.00 per year. This baseline figure has not been updated since 2004. This failure to update the overtime regulations leads to an exception to overtime eligibility originally meant for highly-compensated executive, administrative, and professional employees, who earn little more than the wages for a poverty-level family of four wages.

The United States Supreme Court issued its landmark ruling Friday, June 26, 2015, in Obergefell v. Hodges, holding that the U.S. Constitution guarantees a right to same-sex marriage.

As a board certified labor & employment attorney for many years, I've seen the most common mistakes that repeatedly get employers in trouble.

There are at least six really good reasons for you to have a living trust in your estate planning package.

Scary wage and hours cases continue to fill the news headlines with big settlements or potential damages against employers who do not pay correctly under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

The NLRB is investigating charges against large and small employers in our area already based on these rules! Don’t think it can’t happen to you. An NLRB investigation can be an unwelcome diversion from your business activities, at the very least.

Employers constantly try to avoid paying employment taxes, overtime, and benefits to workers by calling them independent contractors.

Just the day before the new DOL rule was to go into effect extending FMLA coverage to same-sex couples in Texas (and everywhere else) if the marriage was legally recognized in the state of celebration, a Texas federal court enjoined enforcement of the rule until further hearing. The federal case is Texas v. United States of America, No. 7:15-cv-00056 (N.D. Texas 2015).

Effective March 27, 2015, a new DOL regulation will change the definition of spouse in a same-sex marriage to one recognized by the “place of celebration”. The revision effectively extends FMLA rights to eligible workers in same-sex marriages for all marriages recognized in the state of celebration of the marriage.