In this article, Shlomo D. Katz, a member of Brown Rudnick's Government Contracts & Litigation Group in the Firm's Washington DC office, discusses how the Fair Labor Standards (FLSA) may affect furlough plans. Employers considering furloughs and other cost-cutting measures must consider a host of laws, potentially including the Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act (USERRA) among other federal and state statutes.
