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Important questions and answers about the new overtime rule

04/02/2019

Last month’s much-anticipated overhaul of the salary threshold that determines when administrative, executive and professional employees are eligible for overtime pay means employers must now consider potential changes to their compensation plans. Here are some key Q&As from a new DOL fact sheet on the proposed change.

New rules tackle rate of pay, joint employment

04/02/2019

Regulators at the Department of Labor have been busy, issuing two new notices of proposed rulemaking in less than a week.

State OT thresholds may exceed new DOL rule

03/28/2019

Employers in some states have—or will soon have—more than federal wage-and-hour compliance to worry about if their exempt employees work overtime.

Do vacation, sick leave buy-backs factor into overtime pay?

03/26/2019

Many employers that provide sick leave and vacation leave time have a policy or practice that allows employees to “sell back” their accrued but unused time. Do these payments for sick and vacation time have to be counted as part of the employee’s regular rate of pay for the purpose of computing overtime?

Comments on overtime rule accepted until May 21

03/26/2019

The clock has finally started ticking on the Department of Labor’s proposed rule raising the white-collar salary threshold to $35,308 per year.

Muted reaction to DOL’s overtime salary threshold proposed rule

03/12/2019

Reaction to the Department of Labor’s March 7 announcement of a 50% increase in the salary threshold has mostly focused on the practical details. Here’s what people are saying.

1st steps: Gauge impact of new OT threshold

03/12/2019

Start strategizing how to respond by identifying who on your staff would be affected by the new salary threshold rule.

DOL releases new proposed overtime rules

03/08/2019

After two years of speculation, false starts and hand-wringing, the U.S. Department of Labor has finally published its much-anticipated overhaul of the nation’s overtime rules.

High cost of misclassification: $1.4 million

02/28/2019

The owners of a West Virginia coal mine have agreed to settle a U.S. Department of Labor wage-and-hour lawsuit that alleged 214 hourly employees had been misclassified as “salaried” staff, cheating them out of overtime pay.

Chang, Chung employees say cha-ching! after settlement

02/22/2019

Fourteen restaurants in the greater Los Angeles area will pay 100 employees a total of $126,142 after U.S. Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division investigations found violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act.