DETROIT -- Overtime pay is required from your employer in many circumstances when an employee works more than forty hours a week.
While certain employees are exempt, or not entitled to overtime pay, many workers are legally entitled to additional wages and higher pay for extra hours on the job.
Under Federal Law, an employer is required to pay a "non- exempt" employee overtime pay for hours worked beyond a 40-hour work week.
Many things are taking place:
Seattle Passes Minimum Pay Rate for Uber and Lyft Drivers - The New York Times
The Seattle City Council approved a minimum pay standard for Uber and Lyft drivers on Tuesday, becoming the second city in the country to do so.
Under the law, effective in January, ride-hailing companies must pay a sum roughly equivalent, after expenses, to the city's $16 minimum hourly wage for businesses with more than 500 employees.
"The pandemic has exposed the fault lines in our systems of worker protections, leaving many frontline workers like gig workers without a safety net," Mayor Jenny Durkan said in a statement.
Walgreens Shortchanged Retail Workers on Overtime Pay, Suit Says
Six Common (and Costly) FLSA Mistakes | Wyrick Robbins Yates & Ponton LLP - JDSupra
The Federal Fair Labor Standards Act, 29 U.S.C. § 201, et seq., was created as a part of the “New Deal” to help our nation recover from the Great Depression. The law had three primary goals: to assist lower wage workers by establishing a fair minimum wage; to promote fair competition among the states by creating consistent wage and hour standards; and to create jobs through the establishment of overtime pay and thereby encourage employers to hire additional workers.
Today the FLSA continues to provide important protections to workers in terms of their pay and hours worked. The law also presents challenges to employers in their understanding of the many regulations and court cases interpreting the FLSA since 1938 and how those rulings apply to our current workforce, especially in light of the changes in the 2020 workplace cause by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Commission fails us again | Letters to the Editor | keysnews.com
I read with great disappointment the article by Timothy O'Hara, titled "County workers get special storm pay."
Let us take a step back to just after Hurricane Irma when we learned that a massive bill had accrued for special storm pay. This bill, in addition to pay for workers, included very generous overtime benefits for salaried employees not normally entitled to overtime pay. A lot of folks were terribly upset about this.
Our Monroe County commissioners exclaimed that they thought this had been fixed previously, and they vowed to fix it once and for all. They all, at least, pretended to be shocked that this occurred. The county administrator offered to resign over it. Several upper level managers stated that they would not take the pay. It was real showmanship.
Federal Court in Manhattan Vacates Key Part of USDOL'S Final Rule on Joint Employer Status |
On September 8, 2020 U.S. District Court Judge Gregory H. Woods in Manhattan granted partial summary judgment to 17 states and the District of Columbia striking down a major part of the Department of Labor’s Final Rule on vertical joint employer relationships. The Final Rule issued in January and imposed a four-factor test to decide which businesses can be held liable under the FLSA for unpaid minimum wages and overtime pay owed to a worker.
The FLSA requires covered employers to pay employees at least the federal minimum wage for every hour of work and overtime for every hour over 40 hours worked in a workweek unless the employee is exempt from minimum wage or overtime requirements. An employer includes “any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee.” 29 U.S.C. §203(d). Under Department of Labor regulation 29 C.F.R.
Phoenix police pay more than $10 million in 'demonstration overtime' this summer
Nationwide protests have sparked a national conversation. They have also led to loads of overtime for local law enforcement.
In 34 days this summer, the Phoenix Department spent more than $8 million in "demonstration overtime" costs alone.
In September, months after the protests flared and subsided to a smaller group, the department is still spending an unprecedented amount on "OT" - $296,314 in the first week of the month alone.
Surge in $100K city workers: 114,000 now earn six figures. Are some paid too much? - silive.com
OpentheBooks.com pointed out that the city has 331,520 full time employees from 297,349 in 2014. (Staten Island Advance/Joseph Ostapiuk)
NEW YORK, N.Y. -- As Mayor Bill de Blasio continues to push for long term borrowing authority from the state, federal stimulus money, and has moved forward with unpaid furloughs for more than 9,000 city employees (including himself), here's a look at the city's payroll spending in recent years.
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According to OpentheBooks.com , in 2016, there were 76,166 city employees with pay that exceeded $100,000. By 2019, there were more than 114,000 employees, or a 50% increase in six-figure earners.
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