Tag: Fair Labor Standards Act

February 1, 2022

The regional director for the Wage and Hour Division (WHD) of the Department of Labor (DOL) has recently underscored the compliance obstacle that continues to confound employers: whether to include bonuses in the “regular rate” when calculating the overtime pay […]

May 22, 2020

The federal Department of Labor (DOL) released a final rule on May 20, 2020 addressing whether employers may pay bonuses, commissions, and other types of incentive payments to employees paid under the fluctuating workweek (FWW) method of paying overtime. The […]

September 3, 2019

Overtime pay is mandatory under federal law if you work more than 40 hours in a week and are not exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). For the past few years, the Department of Labor has batted around […]

July 23, 2019

I woke up this morning to three emails from people asking essentially the same question: Can my manager stop paying me overtime by declaring that I’m a salaried employee? While giving an entirely correct answer would involve looking carefully at […]

March 19, 2019

The Michigan Paid Sick Leave Act, which will require most employers with at least 50 employees to provide paid sick leave, is set to go into effect March 29. Under the new law, employees of covered employers are eligible for […]

March 12, 2019

The Department of Labor recently announced some new minimum salaries for exemption from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Currently, in order to be exempt from overtime you need to meet the duties test and earn at least $23,660 […]

November 7, 2018

Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), employers must maintain records of hours worked by each nonexempt employee. That means companies bear the ultimate burden of showing that records of hours worked are in fact accurate. If an employer is […]

July 11, 2018

Two things struck me as I was reading today. First, the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) has been around for 80 years now. You would think that every business course would cover this law, every book on entrepreneurship would cover […]

December 19, 2016

A federal judge in Texas has issued a nationwide injunction against the new overtime rule that would’ve impacted more than 4 million U.S. employees on Dec. 1, according to the DOL. The FLSA injunction means that the new overtime rule […]

October 12, 2016

The Fair Labor Standards Act does not require paid lunches for employees. Indeed, quite to the contrary, the FLSA provides that meal breaks (presumptively defined as breaks of more than 20 minutes during which the employee is totally relieved of […]

September 8, 2016

The Department of Labor’s new rule regarding the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act will go into effect Dec. 1, which the DOL projects will impact 4.2 million workers across the country. This rule will impose a substantial […]

May 11, 2016

The U.S. Department of Labor is expected to soon issue a final rule that will make significant changes to the requirements for classifying “white collar” employees as “exempt” under the Fair Labor Standards Act. This rule will impact millions of employees […]