Last year, New York state passed a law guaranteeing workers at more than 35,000 farms rights that most other workers already had, including access to overtime pay, guaranteed time off and the ability to engage in collective bargaining.
Now, a state wage board has until the end of the year to decide on potential changes to overtime rules under the Farm Laborers Fair Labor Practices Act. The new law requires farms to pay overtime at one-and-a-half times the normal rate when farm workers work more than 60 hours in a week or on their guaranteed day of rest as of this year. The board could lower that threshold to 40 hours per week to match overtime rates in other industries.
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Case: Wage & Hour/Overtime (6th Cir.)
IG Charts Increase in Overtime at Postal Service
Overtime for Postal Service employees increased by a third over 2014-2019 with the number of employees earning more in overtime pay than in their regular salaries rising to 4,008 from 758, an IG audit has found.
During that period annual overtime costs increased from $3.7 to $5 billion annually while overtime hours increased from 99 million to 130 million hours, some of which was for "penalty" overtime, which is double salary rather than time and a half, that is paid under certain conditions.
US DOL WHD Opinion Letters on Overtime and Fluctuating Workweek
On August 31, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) released Opinion Letter FLSA2020-14 . The opinion letter explains that an employee's hours do not need to fluctuate below 40 hours per week in order for the employee to qualify for the fluctuating workweek method of calculating overtime pay.
The fluctuating workweek method for complying with the Fair Labor Standards Act's (FLSA) overtime requirements is set forth in 29 C.F.R. § 778.114. It permits the payment of a fixed salary for fluctuating hours as one way employers can meet their overtime pay obligations to nonexempt employees, if certain conditions are met.
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Should You Pay Employees Hourly or a Salary? - Business News Daily
When hiring an employee, you must ask and answer many questions. One of the most important is whether you will offer them a salaried or hourly position.
Salaried employees are usually not paid based on the hours they work; instead, they are paid the same amount each pay period, based on their total salary. An hourly worker, on the other hand, earns a set payment for each hour they work. For example, if they earn $20 an hour and work eight hours in a day, they would earn $160 for that day.
A Seattle Police Officer's Extraordinary Pay Raises Questions SPD Can't Answer | Northwest
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Seattle Police Officer Ron Willis was exceptionally busy in 2019 -- so much so that he crammed the work of two years into just one.
That total means he was paid for working an average of 80 hours a week, about twice as many hours as a typical full-time employee. Willis was paid for working between 90 and 123 hours a week for seven weeks straight last summer, according to a Seattle Times analysis of SPD data.
ORTT, BORRELLO PUSH TO DELAY DECISION ON 60-HOUR OVERTIME FOR FARM WORKERS
As the Farm Laborers Wage Board holds hearings on the 60-hour overtime threshold for farmworkers, Senate Republican Leader Rob Ortt and Senator George Borrello joined colleagues and members of the farming community in calling for freezing the threshold at its current level to enable the collection of more data on the mandate's impact.
Senator Borrello, Ranking Member of the Senate Agriculture Committee, has introduced legislation, Senate Bill 8944, that would delay the board's recommendation until 2024. “When New York City Democrats forced this law on Upstate farmers, we said it would have a devastating impact and it must be fully repealed.
Officers from Braintree, Canton, Milton charged in Boston Police overtime scheme - News - The
Retired Sgt. Gerard O’Brien, 62, of Braintree; Retired Officer Diana Lopez, 58, of Milton and Retired Officer James Carnes, 57, of Canton were each charged with one count of conspiracy to commit theft concerning programs receiving federal funds and one count of embezzlement from an agency receiving federal funds. The indictment was unsealed in federal court Wednesday, and defendants will make initial appearances via videoconference later today.
Also charged are Lieutenant Timothy Torigian, 54, of Walpole; Retired Sgt. Robert Twitchell, 58, of Norton; Retired Officer Henry Doherty, 61, of Dorchester; Retired Officer James Carnes, 57, of Canton; Officer Michael Murphy, 60, of Hyde Park; Retired Officer Ronald Nelson, 60, of Jamaica Plain; and Officer Kendra Conway, 49, of Boston.
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