Allen Smith

Employees may underperform for a variety of reasons—including personal problems and poor onboarding from their employer. But regardless of why it happens, it’s important that the organization step in. HR should train managers not to let poor performance fester but address it head on, including implementing performance improvement plans (PIPs), if necessary. That’s easier said than done.

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against the implementation of the Biden administration’s raised minimum wage for employees of federal contractors.

The U.S. Supreme Court weighed whether employers must show by clear and convincing evidence that a worker is exempt.

SpaceX’s constitutional challenges to the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) got a boost from a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision. Earlier this year, SpaceX—a spacecraft manufacturer, defense contractor, and satellite communications company—earlier this year challenged the NLRB’s structure as unconstitutional because its administrative law judges (ALJs) and members can only be fired for cause.

The NLRB will no longer deem most employer statements about the impact of unionization on the relationship between employees and their employer as categorically lawful.

The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas vacated the Biden administration’s overtime rule on Nov. 15.

A Nov. 15 federal court decision spared HR professionals from having to comply with an increase in the salary threshold for white-collar exemptions from overtime, a threshold that had been set to rise to $58,656 annually as of Jan. 1, 2025. The July 1, 2024, increase of the salary threshold from $35,568 to $43,880 per year was also struck down.

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The DOL clarified which reimbursement payments may be excluded from an employee’s “regular rate” when calculating overtime pay and that FMLA leave may be permissible for a clinical trial.

This article is the second in a three-part series featuring Musa Capital, an early stage venture capital firm, and partner of Equities. If you want to