SAN ANTONIO — The Bexar County Sheriff's Office is requesting roughly $2.5 million to cover staff shortage at the jail. Tuesday, Commissioners Court will make a decision to approve or deny the request.
BCSO says there are about 200 vacant uniformed deputy positions at the Adult Detention Center. As a result, it needs $2.5 million to cover overtime hours until February.
Since the beginning of the fiscal year, October 1, 2019, BCSO has requested extra funding two times. The first request was for $2.3 million. For the fiscal year 2018-2019, BCSO received a total of $8.5 million to cover overtime pay. If the new request is approved, BCSO is on pace to exceed the previous fiscal year's total.
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Minimum wage increase means overtime pay for more Maine workers - Portland Press Herald
About 1,600 salaried workers in Maine will be newly eligible for overtime pay under regulations that will take effect Wednesday.
Federal and state laws require that salaried administrative workers who earn less than a set threshold – $33,000 under current Maine law – be paid overtime for hours they work in excess of 40 hours a week. But that threshold is increasing with the new year – in Maine’s case to $36,000 a year. The rules affect white-collar jobs and also require that workers meet a duties test to make sure that they qualify as administrative, professional or other job classifications under the law.
Employers Warned of Potential Wage-and-Hour Claims Under New Overtime Rule
Time is running out for employers to familiarize themselves with new federal rules on overtime pay.
Starting January 1, the threshold for who is entitled to overtime pay — and who is not — changes. It’s the first change since 2004.
The new rule raises the income threshold that employees must reach to $684 per week, or $35,568 per year, to qualify as exempt from overtime. Employers are allowed to count up to 10% (or $3,556.80 per year) in bonuses or commissions towards the threshold.
New overtime rule affects 61,000 in Pennsylvania | TribLIVE.com
A new year could mean additional earnings for thousands of Pennsylvanians as a new federal rule guaranteeing overtime pay goes into effect.
The rule that takes effect Wednesday guarantees time-and-a-half payments to nearly all hourly employees who work more than 40 hours per week as well as most salaried workers who worked more than 40 hours a week and earn less than $35,568. The U.S. Department of Labor previously capped the threshold at which overtime payments are required at $23,700 a year.
Many things are taking place:
Some lower-paid workers will start getting overtime in the New Year
The new year brings a pay raise for an estimated 1.3 million workers — along with new overtime rules for employers.
The Labor Department rules that go into effect on Jan. 1 raise the threshold at which employees are exempt from being paid overtime. The new cutoff is $684 per week, or $35,568 a year — a 50% increase from the previous threshold of $455 per week or $23,660 annually.
The jobs most likely to be affected by the increase are shift supervisors or assistant managers at restaurants, retailers and manufacturing companies. Workers at companies of all sizes will be affected, but the rules are likely to have a greater impact on small companies that don't have the revenue stream that larger businesses do to use as a cushion against the higher labor costs.
Sheriff's office to request $2.5 million to cover overtime pay, jail staff shortage | kens5.com
Another New Overtime Pay Rule for the New Year | Business Observer | Business Observer
Employers, another new overtime rule was just released. To complement the final rule increasing the minimum salary threshold for exempt employees, which took effect on January 1, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a final rule on December 12, 2019, clarifying that employers may offer perks and benefits to their employees without affecting the amount of overtime compensation owed. This final rule will be effective on January 15, 2020.
First, employee compensation packages, including employer-provided benefits or "perks," have evolved significantly. Many employers now offer various wellness benefits, such as fitness classes, nutrition classes, weight loss programs, smoking cessation programs, health risk assessments, vaccination clinics, stress reduction programs, and training or coaching to help employees meet their health goals.
Idaho company ordered to pay thousands in unpaid overtime
BOISE, Idaho (AP) A federal agency has ordered an Idaho company to pay four employees tens of thousands of dollars in unpaid overtime and travel time after the company violated labor laws.
Idaho Statesman reports that an investigation by the U.S. Labor Department found that Intermountain Concrete Polishing paid employees straight-time rates for all the hours they worked, including workweeks that exceeded 40 hours.
Officials say the company also failed to record or compensate employees for travel time when they worked several hours away from their homes.
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