It's official: Pennsylvania will join the parade of states that are expanding eligibility for overtime pay to more restaurant managers and other salaried employees next year.
The state's Independent Regulatory Review Commission approved a rule change Friday that will extend overtime eligibility to most salaried workers earning less than $780 a week or $40,460 annually in 2021. The threshold will rise to $875 per week or $45,500 a year in 2022.
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Pennsylvania on track to expand overtime eligibility | WITF
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FILE - This April 3, 2019, file photo shows a tip box filled with U.S. currency in New York. People who are in financial distress, such as hiding purchases, spending compulsively or avoiding their financial statements, definitely should seek help, according to Ed Coambs, a certified financial planner and licensed family and marriage therapist who specializes in financial therapy.
DOL Clears The Way For Employee Perks With Overtime Rule Clarification | Brooks Pierce - JDSupra
In a tightening job market, more companies are considering offering perks such as gym memberships, financial assistance for adoptions, tuition reimbursements and signing bonuses as a way to recruit and retain workers.
An employee’s “regular rate of pay” is his or her effective hourly pay, which could include some compensation beyond base pay such as bonuses and commissions. In issuing the new overtime regulations, the Department of Labor provided significant clarification around what employee benefits and perks are included in determining the regular rate of pay with the goal of encouraging companies to offer more benefits to employees.
Staffing Shortage Pushes Overtime Pay Through The Roof In DOC, Creates ‘Dangerous
HARTFORD, CT – A health care staff shortage in the state Correction Department is driving up overtime costs and creating a dangerous situation for staff who say they are often required to work 16-hour days, union officials said.
It’s been 19 months since the DOC terminated the University of Connecticut Health Center’s contract for inmate care, and the department has more vacancies now (139) than it did in 2018 (120).
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In the current staffing situation, the work is “more dangerous for the employees, for the inmates, and for the state," said Pedro Zayas, communications director for the New England Health Care Employees Union 1199 SEIU which represents about 600 to 700 DOC health care workers. "You can see the lawsuits that are coming in.”
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Tell Mel: Restaurant employees want to be paid by their Tucson-area operator.
That's the reality for some employees who worked at some Chuy's Mesquite Broiler locations around Tucson.
The U.S. Department of Labor has ordered the operator to pay $114,964 in back wages and damages to 55 employees after investigators found the employer violated minimum wage and overtime requirements. The employer also faces $20,372 in civil penalties.
Investigators found the employer failed to keep records of overtime hours and didn't pay some employees for all the time that they worked. The report also stated the employer failed to meet federal minimum age requirements and would pay overtime hours either in cash or in a separate check at straight-time rates.
10 Things to Know About New FLSA Overtime Calculations
Beginning January 15, 2020, new, more employer-friendly regulations determine how overtime pay is calculated under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
There are new regulations affecting overtime calculations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The US Department of Labor (DOL) has promulgated these to "provide clarity and to better reflect the 21st-century workplace." Their effective date is January 15, 2020.
As a reminder, the FLSA requires that employers pay overtime at one and one-half times an employee's "regular rate" of pay for hours in excess of 40 per week. There are, of course, some jobs that are exempt from overtime under the FLSA; these regulations affect only overtime-eligible jobs.
Former Nashville UPS employee sues company, claims no pay for 'hundreds of hours' overtime | WZTV
City must rein in outrageous police overtime | News, Sports, Jobs - The Vindicator
Two ranking Youngstown police officers collected more than $160,000 in overtime pay last year, not including their regular salaries.
According to information provided last week by Youngstown interim Finance Director Kyle Miasek, city police Lt. Frank Rutherford Jr. received $82,558.82 in overtime pay in 2019. Detective Sgt. Mohammed S. Awad received $81,779.29 in overtime last year.
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As most private employers would tell you, overtime must be managed. It should not be accepted as a certitude.
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