Last week, I read this press release from the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announcing a six-figure recovery from an employer that “illegally placed a cap on overtime at 16 hours per pay period and paid any overtime beyond 16 hours at straight time rates, a violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act.”
So, let’s discuss some FLSA/overtime rules. Continue reading
Yes, even lawyers can misclassify non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Continue reading
For those of you with businesses in Hawaii, most of Arizona, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, and American Samoa, you can skip today’s post, and I’ll see you tomorrow.
As for the rest of you, let’s talk about how to pay graveyard shift employees who worked the early hours of Sunday morning when we set the clocks ahead one hour Daylight Savings Time. Continue reading
Perhaps you didn’t study this for your SHRM-CP Certification – or even the bar exam. Continue reading
Last night on the U.S. Department of Labor’s website, I spent some time checking out some of the latest news releases from the Wage and Hour Division.
Oh, hold on one second. I need to take this call. Continue reading
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If this isn’t karma, friends, I don’t know what is. Continue reading
Technically, Pennsylvania is a Commonwealth. But that’s not really the point of this post. So, I’ll digress.
Let’s face it. Unlike its neighbor, New Jersey, a/k/a the California of the East, not many would label the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania an employee-friendly state. Continue reading
I still get a kick out of people using the term “salary exempt,” as in, we pay that employee a salary, so s/he isn’t eligible for overtime. Under the Fair Labor Standard Act, a salary is just one of several components of an overtime exemption to avoid having to pay employees time and a half when they work more than 40 hours in a workweek. Plus, the salary must be at least $684 per week, equating to $35,568 per year.
Except, that could be increasing significantly soon. Continue reading
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Common sense dictates that, as human beings, we refrain from certain activities. For example, neither cuddling with a porcupine nor housebreaking a skunk are good ideas. You don’t need a lawyer to tell you that. Continue reading
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