State Rep. Shelly Boshart Davis (R-Millersburg) knows what's best for workers on her family's Linn County farm, she told her fellow Oregon lawmakers March 8.
One thing they neither want nor need, Boshart Davis testified before the House Business and Labor Committee, is the same overtime compensation guaranteed to practically every other worker in the United States.
"During the harvest season, we work up to 10 hours a day, sometimes starting at 5 in the morning, including on the weekends," she told committee members during the same hearing. "It's pretty difficult physically because we have to wake up at 3 or 4 in the morning to get ready for work. We're exposed to different things like extreme weather conditions and toxic pesticides."
Can I Just Make All Employees Hourly?
For more than 80 years, federal law has provided a general right to premium pay for working overtime hours, originally just for covered employees, then later for employees of covered enterprises. The laws of more than 30 states contain a comparable requirement, though in some instances differing in the particulars.
A separate set of disputes has arisen during that same time period regarding whether employers have correctly paid overtime premiums to their salaried non-exempt employees.
U.S. DOL Withdraws Independent Contractor Rule | - CBIA
The U.S. Department of Labor has withdrawn the independent contractor rule approved earlier this year, saying the move will "maintain workers' rights to the minimum wage and overtime compensation protections" of the Fair Labor Standard Act.
The previous rule , passed under the Trump administration, made it easier for companies like Uber and Lyft to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees.
Companies can lower labor costs by using contractors, who are not entitled to the same benefits as employees, including minimum wage and overtime pay, because the FLSA does not apply to contractors.
BRPD narcotics officers accused of misconduct made on average $50K in overtime, doubling salaries
In the months leading up to a corruption probe into the Baton Rouge Police Department narcotics division, seven of its detectives later accused of wrongdoing were clocking on average over 60 hours a week.
That hectic schedule allowed Acree to take home $106,176 last year before his career came crashing down, a massive increase over his $45,649 base salary. Several of his colleagues similarly padded their paychecks with hundreds of overtime hours, according to an Advocate analysis of city-parish payroll records.
Centene Care Workers Secure Settlement In Battle Over OT - Law360
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Montana Supreme Court says no back pay for B-SB water employees | Local | mtstandard.com
Some Butte-Silver Bow employees who work for the Water Division, whose shop at Montana and Galena streets is seen here, sought back pay for unpaid lunch breaks.
The Montana Supreme Court has ruled against 16 Butte-Silver Bow Water Division employees who wanted hundreds of thousands of dollars in back pay for mandatory, unpaid lunch breaks.
The ruling issued this week upheld previous decisions by a hearing officer for the Montana Department of Labor and Industry and District Judge Robert Whelan in Butte, who reached the same conclusions.
Commute Time Is Compensable Only When "Integral and Indispensable" to Employee's Duties, Fifth
Drillers' Unpaid Wage Claim Gets Conditional Class Certification
Letter: The wrong response | Letters To Editor | nogalesinternational.com
We read about that happening at the Santa Cruz County Sheriff's Office in the April 30 issue of the NI. The Arizona Auditor General's Office found it to be the case during the years 2013 to 2018, which were examined. It could have gone on for two decades, the article said.
Former Sheriff Antonio Estrada, now retired, believed it was right and he authorized employees to do that in certain situations.
But Estrada erred. He was not spending his own money – he was spending your money and my money, our tax dollars. That totaled more than $196,000 in the five-year period.
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