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Class Action/Wage and Hour Litigation
Employment & Labor
Employment & Labor Litigation
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Non-Competes
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“My grandfather was a professional boxer, my grandmother was a lawyer, my father is a judge, I’m a litigator. Any questions?”
Joe Sokolowski is an accomplished employment litigator with more than 35 years of experience in courtrooms across the country. He defends employers in complex, high stakes collective/class action litigation involving Federal (FLSA) and state wage and hour claims. Recent examples of Joe’s courtroom success include:
Another significant part of Joe’s practice is representing organizations in “bet-the-company” business tort litigation involving non-compete agreements, trade secrets and confidential information. His courtroom victories are regularly sustained in the appellate courts.
Joe’s commitment to excellence in the practice of law has resulted in his recognition in Best Lawyers in America® for Litigation – Labor & Employment in Minnesota, as a Minnesota Super Lawyer for Employment Litigation for 24 consecutive years, as one of Minnesota’s top 40 employment litigators, and as Martindale-Hubbell-AV® Peer-Review Rated since 1998.
Joe developed his strong work ethic working and paying his way through high school, college and law school, with the following odd, and not so odd, jobs: paper boy, janitor, gas station attendant, highway worker, steel company laborer, Alaskan fish processor, assembly line worker, journalist and law clerk.
April 28, 2020
By Kristy L. Albrecht, Joseph M. Sokolowski and Mary M. Krakow
Please explain the intersection of FFCRA and the FLSA, which sets the federal wage and hour rules for employers. Specifically, does reducing an eligible exempt employee’s salary to two-thirds their daily rate of pay, capped at $200, as allowed under FFCRA, put the employee’s exempt status at risk under the FLSA?
April 8, 2020
Can I deduct from, or reduce, the salary of an exempt employee without losing exempt status during these uncertain and unprecedented times?
