Workers who provide in-home care for clients are exempt from overtime pay even if they are employed by an outside company, a federal appeals court ruled last week.
Theresa Jordan, a Colorado employee of Maryland-based Maxim Healthcare Services, sued her employer in May 2015, arguing she was eligible for overtime pay under state rules because she wasn’t directly employed as a “companion.”
Companions can work long shifts, including staying overnight with clients, who might be bedbound or otherwise unable to care for themselves. That’s one reason they were initially excluded from overtime pay under state rules.
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TSA freezes hiring and overtime pay as spring travel season nears - The Washington Post
Hydrick Thomas, the union's president, said agency officials told him last week that the freezes would be in place until April or May. That could leave security checkpoints short-staffed, he said.
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Thomas said that he hadn't seen anything in writing about the change but that the agency's regional security directors were informed in a phone call last week. Another union official said he was told of the plan by the security director at the airport where he works.
New Overtime Pay Regulation in Pennsylvania May Create Obligations for Employers Beyond Federal
On January 31, 2020, the Pennsylvania Independent Regulatory Review Commission (IRRC) adopted an amendment promulgated by the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry (DLI) to increase the minimum salary required to avoid overtime compensation for Executive, Administrative and/or Professional (EAP) workers. The new minimum salary is $684 per week ($35,568 annually).
The new required minimum salary in Pennsylvania matches the new federal threshold which became effective January 1, 2020, but in 2021 (one year after the new regulation is published in the Pennsylvania Bulletin) the Pennsylvania minimum will exceed the federal level. The amendment also attempts to align Pennsylvania’s “duties tests” with the federal regulations, but gaps remain, including the differing salary thresholds beginning in 2021.
California BART station agent worked 361 days in 2018, made over $100,000 in overtime | 6abc.com
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Wage board could change 60-hour overtime rule for farmworkers | Newsday
A three-person wage board will hold hearings around the state before making a recommendation on farmworkers' overtime. Credit: Newsday/John Paraskevas
New York State could change the number of hours that farmworkers must work before earning overtime pay, officials said.
The state Department of Labor plans to convene a three-member wage board to examine the threshold over which time-and-a-half must be paid to farm employees. The threshold is now 60 hours per week.
The Coeur d'Alene Press - North Idaho Business Journal, New overtime rules increase eligibility,
A new rule effective in January makes an additional 1.3 million American workers eligible for overtime pay, according to the U.S. Department of Labor.
The rule, years in the making and intended to account for average wage increases since the last significant change in 2004, raises the threshold for exempt workers (professional salaried workers). That�s good news for more employees who work more than 40 hours weekly, and more expensive for employers who must now cover the difference under the Fair Labor Standards Act (�FLSA�).
2019 DOL Rules: Overtime, Joint Employer, Tip Pooling
In 2019, the DOL issued a Final Rule updating the minimum salary requirements for the "white collar" (executive, administrative, and professional) overtime exemptions. The new rule went into effect on January 1, 2020.
Under the Final Rule, the annual salary level for these exemptions will increase to $35,568, or $684 per week, a 50% increase from the current level of $23,660 ($455 per week). In addition, the annual minimum compensation for highly compensated employees (HCE) also will increase, from $100,000 to $107,432, well below the minimum HCE compensation set in both the Obama-era Rule and in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking issued in March 2019.
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