by Tara Swartz | Dec 1, 2015 | News & Updates
Attorney Swartz has been selected for inclusion in the 2015 Massachusetts and New England Super Lawyers List. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high degree of peer recognition and professional...
by Tara Swartz | Oct 15, 2015 | Articles, News & Updates
The DOL’s Final Rule providing many home care workers protections under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) including the right to minimum wage and overtime is moving forward for implementation. While the rule was to become effective January 1, 2015, an...
by Tara Swartz | Sep 14, 2015 | Articles
By Attorney Tara Swartz – President Barack Obama issued an Executive Order on Labor Day, 2015 extending the right to paid sick leave to employees across the country working for private companies who contract with the federal government. The new rule appears to...
by Tara Swartz | Sep 14, 2015 | Articles
By Attorney Tara Swartz – The question of whether an internship is appropriately unpaid as a learning opportunity or should be paid in accordance with the federal and state wage and hour laws has become a hot topic in recent years. At the end of the day the...
by Tara Swartz | Jul 10, 2015 | Articles
The Massachusetts Domestic Violence Act is an expansive law enacted in 2014 that in addition to instituting reforms throughout the criminal justice system and in other areas extends protections to victims of domestic violence and their family members in the workplace....
