Articles Posted in Overtime

Folks, someday, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) may darken your door to audit your books and records. Perhaps, they’ll find a violation and require you to pay back wages and liquidated damages. If your next steps involve retaliating against employees who cooperate with investigators and demanding kickbacks of back wages, you will compound those problems.

I told you so.

Continue reading

Don’t worry. I can get you past the bouncers. Continue reading

Whether a six-figure supervisor is exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules is probably not something that’s kept you up at night — unless you pay your employees a lot of money without paying them a salary (e.g., day rates).

Or you’re just an FLSA nerd like me. Continue reading

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

Roman Oleinik, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

If this isn’t karma, friends, I don’t know what is. Continue reading