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Restaurants at the Crossroads: A State By State Summary of Key Wage-and-Hour Provision Affecting the Restaurant Industry
By: Carolyn Richmond, J.D., David Sherwyn, J.D., and Martha Lomanno
Executive Summary:
Restaurateurs face a remarkable tangle of laws and regulations that on their face are meant to protect workers, but which often serve to create a confusion for operators—and employment for labor attorneys. While many states simply apply federal wage and hour laws, others have been active in passing their own statutes, which set regulations that are more stringent than those of the federal goverment. Based on discussions at Cornell Legal Roundtables, this tool presents a comprehensive compilation of the wage-and-hour rules from all fifty U.S. states, plus the District of Columbia and Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. While this tool does not substitute for the advice of legal counsel, it provides an overview of regulations to guide restaurateurs as they set their human resource policies and procedures.
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About David Sherwyn, J.D.
David Sherwyn (BS, JD, Cornell University) is an associate professor of law at Cornell University's School of Hotel Administration. He is a research fellow at the Center for Labor and Employment Law at New York University's School of Law. In addition, Dave is of counsel to the law firm of Shea Stokes Roberts & Wagner. Prior to joining the School of Hotel Administration, Dave practiced management-side labor and employment law for six years.
Dave has published articles in the Stanford Law Review, Berkeley Journal of Labor and Employment Law, Fordham Law Review, University of Pennsylvania Labor and Employment Law Journal, and the Cornell Hospitality Quarterly.
Dave teaches H ADM 387: Business and Hospitality Law, a required class with more than 100 students. In addition, each spring, Dave teaches H ADM 485: Employment Discrimination Law and Union-Management Relations and HA 481 Labor Relations in the Hospitality Industry. Dave received a Hotel School Teacher of the Year Award in 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2005, 2007 and 2008. Dave has been nominated for the fraternity and sorority teaching award twelve times and has won the award twice.
In 2002 Dave conceived of, organized, and hosted the Center for Hospitality Research's first Hospitality Industry Roundtable. Because of the success of the Labor and Employment Law Roundtable, the Center now hosts Roundtables in each of the disciplines that are represented in the School.
For more information visit http://www.hotelschool.cornell.edu/research/facultybios/faculty.html?id=72