Alaska Employment Law

Proposed DOL regulations:  Monday, October the 8th, is the deadline for comments on the proposed changes to DOL regulations about overtime exemptions, child labor, and return transportation. 

Fairbanks as sanctuary city: Sunday’s Fairbanks Daily News-Miner (B-1) covers an Ohio website that lists Fairbanks as a “Sanctuary City” - one that has an official or unofficial city policy of protecting illegal aliens.  The report is false, according to the City of Fairbanks.  Mayor Steve Thompson has introduced an ordinance confirming City policy to cooperate with the feds.  The site is found here.

Car dealership fees:  State newspapers last week carried ads asking, “Have you ever purchased a new or used vehicle from any Alaskan auto dealership in the last five years?  If so, you may have paid excessive dealership fees and be entitled to compensation.”  The sponsoring attorneys are not identified, but the phone number leads to the offices of Anchorage attorneys Peggy Roston and Trena Heikes.

Revised Federal Civil Rules: The changes to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure are effective December 1, 2007.  Substantive changes were made to Rules 4, 14, 16, 26, 30, 31, 36, 40, 70A (now 71.1), and 78.  Thomas Yerbich, Rules Attorney for the District of Alaska, has summarized the changes in his October 2nd memo.