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The DOL final overtime rule is out today. Here is what employers need to know now.
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Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced here that it will issue a final overtime rule today. Most notably, the DOL is updating the earnings thresholds necessary to exempt executive, administrative and professional employees (EAPs) from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime pay requirements.
Below, I’ll address that new salary level and just about everything else that employers need to know about this new rule: Continue reading
Do you use the FLSA’s fluctuating workweek method? Do you pay bonuses too? You’ll want to read this.
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The most fun you can have in a week with wage and hour compliance!!!
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A new bill in Congress would mute the Department of Labor’s proposed overtime rule changes
“Uh, dude. It’s ‘moot,’ not ‘mute.’ You did go to law school, right?” Continue reading
It sure sounds like several state AGs are going to sue to block the DOL’s proposed overtime rules.
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The largest HR organization in the world ❤’s the DOL’s proposed overtime rules. Mostly.
The Society for Human Resource Management has commented on the United States Department of Labor‘s proposed changes to the current overtime rules.
Spoiler alert: SHRM likes ’em. Continue reading
🚨🚨DOL plans to clarify how companies calculate overtime for employees🚨🚨
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I remember the time that the U.S. Department of Labor showed up unannounced to the Bloggerdome.
It was yesterday. And, I’m pretty sure that the five-year-old ratted me out for paying my other three kids in Cheerios for installing a marble driveway. The driveway was a birthday gift I gave to myself.
(I turn 43 today.)
But, lesson learned. And even though this never really happened, I feel your pain, friends. I know how difficult it can be to comply with wage and hour laws. Continue reading
BREAKING-ish, sorta, not really. Yeah, you knew this was coming. The DOL officially announces overtime changes.
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Before all the Facebook creepiness, pukey-poopy emojis, and gushing over my awesome law firm, I foreshadowed some changes from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules.
Yesterday, the DOL put a ring on it and made it official. Continue reading
New overtime rules are coming (yes, really this time!). Here are eight things employers need to know to prepare.
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Remember that f**king fire drill?
Back in 2016, the United States Department of Labor proposed a rule that would have made millions of workers eligible to earn overtime for the first time by raising the salary-level that exempts certain individuals from overtime eligibility under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
And employers panicked. Many businesses converted salaried employees to hourly. Others got raises. Some received both. It was a mess. The only happy people were the employment lawyers.
But, then a federal judge in Texas entered a nationwide injunction against the proposed DOL rule, and everything went away, except those raises and pay changes that you could exactly stuff back into the tube of toothpaste.
Welcome to Round Two