Employers may need to adjust their pay practices now that the Labor Department has issued its long-anticipated proposal to raise the salary threshold for exempt employees – a change that could make more of your employees...more
High-earning workers making more than $200,000 a year might be eligible for overtime pay thanks to a new Supreme Court ruling yesterday morning. The decision is a wake-up call for all employers to review their OT exemptions...more
Employers may be shocked to learn that a supervisor who earns $200,000 a year could be entitled to overtime pay, but the Supreme Court might very well decide you could be on the hook for such payments in the near future....more
For the last several months, we have all been eagerly awaiting USDOL’s final “Overtime Rule” – to hopefully finally put to bed the confusion that has filled the air for nearly three years. As of Tuesday, the suspense is over...more
9/26/2019
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The Labor Department is busy.
Yes, that is a stand-alone paragraph. The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for the “Overtime Rule” was published on March 22, 2019, followed shortly thereafter by proposals regarding regular rate...more
We have waited years to see where the U.S. Department of Labor would land with its much anticipated revised “overtime rule”—late yesterday, the agency delivered. The USDOL released its long-awaited proposed rule which, if...more
Last month, the United States Department of Labor (USDOL) Wage and Hour Division announced that it would hold public listening sessions, inviting members of the public to comment on the FLSA's white-collar exemptions....more
We are almost half way through 2018, and this year has been filled with fast and furious changes at USDOL. Proposed tip credit changes (Check, including a reaction from Congress and more tip credit changes on the horizon)....more
6/21/2018
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Navarro v Encino Motorcars ,
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