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The Burr Broadcast: FLSA Overtime Exemption
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California Employment News: The Basics of Pay Exemptions
Effective July 1, new legislation will take effect in Virginia imposing further restrictions on the use of covenants not to compete and prohibiting their use for employees who are eligible to receive overtime pay under the...more
Sometimes a salaried exempt employee reduces their workload to part-time status. Does this change mean that the employer must reclassify that worker as non-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act? ...more
For most non-exempt employees, the Fair Labor Standards Act considers time spent traveling during the working day to be compensable working time. Last week, the Third Circuit Court of Appeals applied this principle to travel...more
Hurricane Ida reportedly was the third most powerful storm on record to hit Louisiana when it landed on August 29, 2021. Indeed, more than 590,000 homes and businesses across the region still were without power as of...more
The questions and answers below highlight labor and employment topics as they relate to nonprofit organizations. Classifying Your Staff - What is the difference between a paid employee and an unpaid volunteer? Under...more
Since late December 2019, a series of earthquakes and aftershocks have struck the southwest region of Puerto Rico, causing many structures to collapse or to sustain severe structural damage. Intermittent electrical service,...more
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, non-exempt employees must receive one and one half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over forty in a work week. The “regular rate” is generally calculated by dividing...more
Earlier this year, I wrote about the numerous streaming service options that were available to consumers and how this made it difficult to decide which services to utilize, if any, as alternatives to cable. At the time, I was...more
On December 16, 2019, the United States Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) published in the Federal Register a Final Rule updating the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) regulations that govern, among other...more
The Department of Labor released a final rule that codifies a majority of the changes it proposed to the “regular rate” regulations earlier this year. These changes will take effect on January 15, 2020....more
Q: I heard that the Pennsylvania Supreme Court recently issued a major ruling regarding overtime pay. What do I need to know? ...more
The U.S. Department of Labor issued its bi-annual regulatory agenda update on November 20, 2019. Of the 63 items listed, the Wage & Hour Division (WHD) included seven regulatory priorities. Only one of these is new: a...more
In the fall of 2016, before the Obama administration increases to the minimum salary were set to go into effect (spoiler alert – they didn’t!), we wrote in this space about the challenges facing employers in addressing those...more
On March 28, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) announced a proposed rule to update the regular rate requirements under 29 CFR part 778 and section 7(e) of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”)....more
On March 28, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced a new proposed rule that would clarify that certain payments and benefits provided by employers do not factor in to employees’ “regular rate,” which is used to...more
• The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule updating the calculation of a nonexempt employee's regular rate of pay for overtime pay purposes. • The proposed rule is intended to better reflect the modern workplace...more