Mariah Tabb prepares drinks at Puckett's Grocery and Restaurant, September 10, 2021, in Nashville, Tennessee.
The typical American is working more hours per week—especially during the COVID pandemic—and yet only a fraction of employees qualify for overtime pay.
Overtime Rule Update Spurs Industry Groups to Push DOL for Input
More than 100 business and industry groups are urging the U.S. Department of Labor to seek public input before it releases a highly anticipated rule to update overtime pay regulations that is expected to extend time-and-a-half wages to more workers.
Previous administrations held stakeholder meetings when updating federal overtime pay eligibility rules, and the agency would benefit from receiving feedback on how a proposed rule change could affect the economy, the groups—including the National Retail Federation and the U.S.
Oregon farmworkers need overtime pay to keep pace, afford insurance
Farmworkers have continued to show up to work and ensure we have food on the table, even during a respiratory pandemic, catastrophic fires and hazardous air quality levels.
Farmworkers helped sustain more than $5 billion of the market value of Oregon agriculture and kept family farms from shutting their doors.
5 key things to know about CT's spending on state employee pay
Connecticut's spending on state employee pay has grown in recent years – reaching a record high of $4.9 billion each of the past two years – even as the number of state workers dipped, according to an analysis of data from the state Comptroller's office.
In the five years between 2017 and 2021, the state's total payroll climbed 6.8 percent, with an acute jump in spending the last two years when COVID-19 placed increased demand and strain on a range of public services to confront the virus and its economic fallout.
US DOL - Dorsey Tire Co. Violates Overtime Pay - STL.News
ATLANTA, GA ( STL.News ) Employers must accurately count all employees’ hours and include certain commissions earned when calculating overtime pay due. Failing to do so can lead to violations and result in unexpected costs in the form of back wages and, in some cases, penalties.
Eye-Popping Overtime: Prison Employees Double Salaries, Causing Burnout and Costing State Millions
Seventeen employees of Nebraska's prison system more than doubled the size of their paychecks during the past fiscal year.
How? They made more in overtime payments than they did in base salary, according to data the state recently provided the Flatwater Free Press.
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FLSA - Eleventh Circuit Finds that Additional Compensation Is Allowed Under the Fluctuating
A case recently decided before the Eleventh Circuit Court has clarified that overtime compensation paid to employees according to the fluctuating workweek method provided under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) payment of other variable pay factors including shift differentials and bonuses
The plaintiff, in this case, worked in Florida as a technician for the employer and was classified as a salaried non-exempt employee. The employee signed a document during the hiring process agreeing that overtime payment would be calculated according to the fluctuating workweek method.
Home Health Company Sued by Department of Labor over Misclassification - Health
Lady of Fatima Health Services provides in home health services and nursing. The complaint accuses the defendant of misclassifying workers as independent contractors and failing to pay them overtime rates for work over 40 hours.
The complaint also alleges that when workers worked for more than one client, the defendants did not combine those hours to confirm that they had worked over 40 hours and instead treated each set of hours independently.
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