Image Credit: Photofunia.com About a year or so ago, Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf announced a plan to direct the Department of Labor & Industry (PA’s version of the DOL) to change the overtime rules in PA: The first step will raise the salary level to determine overtime eligibility for most workers…
Image by CMElixirs from Pixabay Let’s assume that you run a business that may operate illegally under federal law. For example, what if your business provided security services for the marijuana industry? Marijuana is a Schedule One drug. Schedule One drugs are illegal under the federal Controlled Substances Act. So,…
Image Credit: Pexels.com (https://www.pexels.com/photo/2018-alarm-clock-balance-business-612051/) Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced here that it will issue a final overtime rule today. Most notably, the DOL is updating the earnings thresholds necessary to exempt executive, administrative and professional employees (EAPs) from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (FLSA) minimum wage and overtime…
By U.S. Department of Labor – Converted from EPS version available here; there are EPS and PDF versions, Public Domain, Link Welcome to both of you. Under the Fair Labor Standards Act, an employer must pay non-exempt employees minimum wage and overtime for hours worked over 40 in a workweek.…
ImperfectTommy / Edmond Meinfelder [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia CommonsWhat’s better than a three-part series on wage-and-hour compliance? (Other than an apple cider tour with Ned Flanders.) Don’t answer that question! Ok, here’s the thing. Most of you are on vacation this July 4th week and won’t read this post.…
By Tehdog – Own work, CC0, Link “Uh, dude. It’s ‘moot,’ not ‘mute.’ You did go to law school, right?” Either way, on Tuesday, both the House and Senate put forth versions of the same bill called the Restoring Overtime Pay Act. Here is the House version, and here is…
Image Credit: Photofunia (http://photofunia.com/results/5cf79c07846d78c44a8b4599) Well, this just got interesting. Check out what Pennsylvania Attorney General Joshua Shapiro tweeted the other day: In March, the DOL indicated that it would raise the salary threshold to determine who would be eligible to collect overtime for working more than 40 hours in a…
By Source, Fair use, Link The Society for Human Resource Management has commented on the United States Department of Labor‘s proposed changes to the current overtime rules. Spoiler alert: SHRM likes ’em. Salary level. In case you need your recollection refreshed, back in March, the DOL indicated that it would…
Image Credit: Pixabay.com (https://pixabay.com/illustrations/oil-price-gas-station-news-fuel-990357/) I remember the time that the U.S. Department of Labor showed up unannounced to the Bloggerdome. It was yesterday. And, I’m pretty sure that the five-year-old ratted me out for paying my other three kids in Cheerios for installing a marble driveway. The driveway was a…
Image Credit: Pexels.com (https://www.pexels.com/photo/2018-alarm-clock-balance-business-612051/) Before all the Facebook creepiness, pukey-poopy emojis, and gushing over my awesome law firm, I foreshadowed some changes from the U.S. Department of Labor to the Fair Labor Standards Act overtime rules. Yesterday, the DOL put a ring on it and made it official. Here’s where I quote…