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The Employer Handbook BlogEven LAW FIRMS commit SIX-FIGURE wage and hour violations, apparently.
Yes, even lawyers can misclassify non-exempt employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Continue reading
Articles Posted in Overtime
How do employees get paid for work performed on the Sunday of Daylight Savings?
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
Here’s a bonus FLSA tip: don’t threaten the families of employees that complain about their wages
Perhaps you didn’t study this for your SHRM-CP Certification – or even the bar exam. Continue reading
Avoiding these wage and hour blunders could save your company over a hundred thousand dollars
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
The feds are suing a company and its owner that paid a former employee’s final paycheck in pennies — about 91,500 of them.
Roman Oleinik, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
If this isn’t karma, friends, I don’t know what is. Continue reading
Here’s hoping employers in states like PA paid nonexempt employees for COVID-19 temperature checks at work. Otherwise…
Technically, Pennsylvania is a Commonwealth. But that’s not really the point of this post. So, I’ll digress.
Like ordering a cheesesteak with Swiss, employee-friendly OT rules just aren’t meant to be in PA
Let’s face it. Unlike its neighbor, New Jersey, a/k/a the California of the East, not many would label the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania an employee-friendly state. Continue reading
Secretary of Labor to Congress: The salary level cutoff for overtime is too low. We’re changing it.
I still get a kick out of people using the term “salary exempt,” as in, we pay that employee a salary, so s/he isn’t eligible for overtime. Under the Fair Labor Standard Act, a salary is just one of several components of an overtime exemption to avoid having to pay employees time and a half when they work more than 40 hours in a workweek. Plus, the salary must be at least $684 per week, equating to $35,568 per year.
Except, that could be increasing significantly soon. Continue reading
DON’T DO THIS: Enslave an employee
Image by analogicus from Pixabay
Common sense dictates that, as human beings, we refrain from certain activities. For example, neither cuddling with a porcupine nor housebreaking a skunk are good ideas. You don’t need a lawyer to tell you that. Continue reading
Members of Congress want “bold action” from the new Labor Secretary. (Like overtime for anyone making under $1,591/week!!!))
Image by Gerd Altmann from Pixabay
Several members of Congress have asked new Secretary of Labor Martin J. Walsh to require American businesses to pay overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act to anyone making less than $1,591 per week (equivalent to $82,732 per year for a full-year worker) who works more than 40 hours in a workweek. $82,732 per year is the 55th percentile of earnings of full-time salaried workers nationwide.
So, yeah, whoa! Continue reading