In Mayfield v. United States Dep't of Labor, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit affirmed a lower court's ruling that the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has authority to set a minimum ...

The latest decision out of the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals throws a dramatic new element of confusion into the epic regulatory saga that has been the rollout of the Department of Labor ...

The 5th’s Circuit decision provides insight into one of the most significant labor and employment law questions to emerge following the U.S. Supreme Court’s overturning of Chevron deference in Loper ...

Alight provides recordkeeping services for employers who sponsor ERISA-governed health and welfare and retirement plans. In 2019, the DOL began investigating Alight on the basis of alleged ...

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Anticipating the DOL will not itself ask the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a crucial mid-March panel ruling that vacated the Obama-era fiduciary rule expansion, attorneys general and ...

The court’s decision represents the latest update in a decade-long regulatory scrap over the proper method by which to determine whether employers may take a tip credit toward their obligations to ...

California, New York and Oregon filed a last-minute, long-shot appeal for a court to reconsider its request for a full review of its decision to toss the Department of Labor fiduciary rule. The Fifth ...

Critics of the Department of Labor’s latest fiduciary rule filed a lawsuit last week challenging its validity in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, hoping the court will vacate the rule as it did ...