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The Burr Broadcast: FLSA Overtime Exemption
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Many employers unknowingly classify employees as exempt from overtime pay or fail to correctly calculate wages and, in some cases, entitlement to unpaid leave time. This can result in significant liability under the Fair...more
January brought two legal updates in the wage and hour space. Read on! PROHIBITING THE MANDATORY USE OF PAID TIME OFF DURING CERTAIN FMLA LEAVES - On January 14, 2025, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour...more
Federal wage and hour officials have trained their attention on healthcare employers in the Southeastern United States – and we expect this scrutiny to continue into the new year. The past year alone saw the Department of...more
Just days before Labor Day, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) unveiled its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“NPRM”), aimed at revising the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime exemptions for executive, administrative, and...more
Federal and state wage and hour litigation has been an area of concentration for Industrial/Organizational Psychologists for decades. These cases address alleged discrimination in wage-based employment practices such as...more
As you plan your 2023 budgets, you may want to account for a potential increase in the exempt salary threshold under an anticipated new federal overtime rule. The Department of Labor (DOL) initially aimed to release the...more
Employers in the restaurant and hospitality industries know it’s a common practice to ask workers to share gratuities. Tip pools can promote teamwork and a better customer experience – but they can also land you in hot water...more
For years now, healthcare employers have been particularly attractive targets when it comes to wage and hour compliance actions. Not only is the industry one of the largest in the country, there are some issues unique to...more
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued two new opinion letters on January 8, 2021, bringing the number of “lame duck” wage and hour opinion letters—issued since Election Day 2020—to six....more
On December 31, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued two opinion letters—one on home-to-office travel time and one on live-in caregivers. Such “lame duck” opinion letters—issued...more
At the end of August, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) issued four new opinion letters addressing various issues arising under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The topics covered include the...more
On November 5, 2019, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a new Rule which would allow employers to offer bonuses and other incentive-based payments to salaried nonexempt employees whose work...more
USDOL has announced a proposed rule intended to clarify the "fluctuating workweek" under the FLSA. This is yet another example of the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) continuing to clean up the mess left by its predecessors....more
If you are a sports fan, then you might consider the regulatory agenda of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in general, and the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) in particular, as winding down to the end of the third quarter of a...more
On July 1, 2019, the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor issued several new opinion letters. One such letter, FLSA 2019-9, concerns an employer’s use of payroll software to calculate the wages owed to its...more
As discussed in our EmployerLINC Alert earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage & Hour Division announced a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to increase the salary threshold employees must meet in...more
On March 22, 2019, the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division will publish in the Federal Register its proposed rule to revise the overtime exemption regulations for executive, administrative, professional, outside sales and computer...more
On Thursday March 7, 2019, the United States Department of Labor ("U.S. DOL") proposed a new "overtime rule," which would raise the minimum salary level for employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act's "white collar"...more