After nearly a 10-year hiatus, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recently issued three formal opinion letters, setting forth its views on various wage-and-hour issues addressed to the WHD by interested parties.

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Entities seeking to collect defaulted mortgage loans in Maryland need not be licensed by state, Maryland’s top court ruled Thursday.

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President Donald Trump’s order for a regulatory freeze has led the financial industry to wonder about the fate of the Department of Labor’s fiduciary duty rule that will define how financial advisers handle retirement accounts. But although some industry groups ...

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With 10 days to go until new overtime regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act kick in, employers across Maryland should be taking a hard look at how the law will affect their business, if they haven’t already. The new regulations, which ...

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Maryland added 700 jobs and the state’s unemployment rate stayed at 4.3 percent in August, according data released Tuesday by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics. According to the preliminary survey data, the first six months in ...

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Two Maryland economists Wednesday questioned the likely impact of new regulations from the U.S. Department of Labor that would expand overtime pay for millions of salaried workers, saying the rules might lead instead to a cutback on employees’ hours. The ...

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Following two months of significant gains in its private employment numbers, Maryland lost 6,200 jobs in June, the U.S. Department of Labor reported Tuesday. Only Illinois and New Jersey experienced greater over-the-month decreases in employment than Maryland, which has now ...

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The weakening U.S. economy spilled into the job market in March.

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Maryland officials now have another reason to declare the state the nation’s cybersecurity capital.

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The legal services sector added 3,300 jobs in August, marking its largest employment jump in more than a year, according to the Department of Labor’s monthly employment report.

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