Melissa A. Overbeck

Melissa Overbeck focuses her practice on employment litigation and counseling, representing companies across a wide variety of industries in all types of employment-related matters. Melissa regularly defends employers against claims of discrimination, retaliation, harassment, and breach of contract in state and federal courts, before state and federal administrative agencies, and in arbitrations.

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“Ok, Boomer” Not Okay in the Workplace

By Melissa A. Overbeck on December 9, 2019 Posted in Employment Counseling & Workplace Claims Prevention, Employment Discrimination Harassment & Retaliation

The latest catchphrase in the ongoing generational battle between Millennials and their more senior counterparts may have consequences for employers if permitted in the workplace. The phrase, “OK, Boomer” has increasingly gained popularity among Millennials and Generation Z’ers as a way of dismissing comments or habits from older generations that they view as out of … Continue Reading

Deadline Approaches for Submitting New Pay and Hours Data

By Melissa A. Overbeck on August 12, 2019 Posted in Employment Counseling & Workplace Claims Prevention, Wage & Hour

The EEOC portal is now open and employers who had 100 or more employees in 2017 or 2018 have until September 30, 2019 to submit the earnings and hours data required by the new Component 2 part of the EEO-1 form. As we have previously reported here the EEO-1 form was revised to require employers … Continue Reading

New Salary Threshold for Employees Exempt from Overtime

By Bran Noonan and Melissa A. Overbeck on March 10, 2019 Posted in Wage & Hour

Exempt employees would have to be paid a minimum annual salary of $35,308 in order to be exempt from the overtime and record keeping requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act, under the Department of Labor’s long-awaited proposed new rule. The proposed new salary threshold represents almost a 50% increase over the current threshold of … Continue Reading

Employing Anyone in New York? New Anti-Harassment Laws Taking Effect

By Bran Noonan and Melissa A. Overbeck on August 21, 2018 Posted in Employment Counseling & Workplace Claims Prevention, Employment Discrimination Harassment & Retaliation, Employment Investigations & Audits, Employment Litigation

All employers with even a single employee working in New York City or New York State will be required to meet requirements designed to address sexual harassment under new city and state laws. Employers with an employee working in New York City must post a formal notice regarding harassment in a conspicuous location on their … Continue Reading