Pennsylvania employers with salaried, nonexempt employees working in the commonwealth may need to adjust how they calculate overtime premiums for these employees in light of amendments to the Pennsylvania Minimum Wage Act that will go into effect on August 5.
Specifically, employers must calculate the regular rate of pay for salaried, nonexempt employees by adding up all remuneration paid to the employee during the workweek and dividing this amount by 40 hours.
Covid Hazard Pay Has Ripple Effects in Today's Overtime Cases
Potential wage-and-hour liability exposure persists for employers that provided additional wages in response to the pandemic, even as Covid-19 hazard pay has mostly dried up.
Workers have filed at least 14 federal collective actions against employers for allegedly failing to pay all overtime owed because they didn't include virus pay boosts when calculating overtime rates, according to a Bloomberg Law review of cases.
Should You Be Paying Overtime to Your Office Staff? | Verrill - JDSupra
Office workers who perform receptionist, secretarial, and other administrative tasks often are incorrectly classified as exempt from overtime pay because they receive a salary and have job titles such as "executive assistant.
The federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and state wage and hour laws require that employees who work more than 40 hours in a workweek be paid 1.5 times their regular rate of pay for any hours worked above 40 unless they qualify for an exemption.
In Baton Rouge, one city worker put in for more than 2,600 hours of overtime in one year as ...
(The Center Square) – An emergency medical service supervisor in Baton Rouge made $87,701 in overtime on average from 2019 through 2021, working an average of 2,455 hours in overtime each year.
Law enforcement work the crime scene where Baton Rouge police were shot, in Baton Rouge, La., in 2016. An audit of the city's budget raised red flags about how overtime is approved by the city.
Madison Township trustees OK overtime pay for road department staff
Trustees say the overtime is needed because the road department is behind in doing some of its regular summer work and the board is receiving more concerns from residents about potholes.
"Kokosing (Construction) is coming in the first of the month and starting our roads (resurfacing) and a few of them aren't quite ready yet," said Trustee Jim Houser.
US Department of Labor recovers $608K in wages, liquidated damages after Mountain Mike's Pizza ...
SAN JOSE, CA – Denying their workers overtime pay when required has had costly consequences for the operators of six northern California pizza franchise locations from whom the U.S. Department of Labor has recovered a total of $608,272 in back wages and liquidated damages for 33 workers.
Investigators with t he department's Wage and Hour Division determined Mountain Mike's Pizza locations in Pittsburg, Hercules, Pinole, Fairfield, Martinez and Danville – operated by Sumeet Singh and Mandeep Saini – failed to pay proper overtime to the affected workers.
LMPD SWAT members sue for overtime backpay | whas11.com
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The civil trial has begun in the case involving members of Louisville Metro Police's SWAT team.
US Department of Labor recovers $178K in back wages for 27 workers of Houston employer who ...
HOUSTON – An investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor has recovered $178,358 in overtime back wages for 27 employees of a Houston welding and fabrication company that misclassified them as independent contractors and denied them their full wages and benefits.
The department's Wage and Hour Division found M&M's Welding & Fabricating – operating as M&M's Welding – misclassified the workers who specialize in the erection of structural steel buildings.
LaserShip Owes Delivery Drivers Overtime Pay, Lawsuit Alleges
LaserShip Inc. misclassified package delivery drivers as independent contractors when they're actually employees, and it owes them overtime pay, a new suit alleges in federal court in Georgia.
The last-mile delivery firm pays its drivers as independent contractors, but they're actually "employees subject to an extremely high degree of control and supervision," and are therefore entitled to overtime, three workers tell the US District Court for the Northern District of Georgia in a ...
Chris Tague rips Kathy Hochul for helping NY farm workers
The criticism, for which a Hochul spokeswoman declined to comment, follows reports that Hochul was expected to eventually approve lowering of the overtime threshold for agricultural workers from 60 to 40 hours over the course of a decade.
Opponents say giving farm workers more overtime pay would be too costly for farmers, who often struggle to be competitive in national and international marketplaces.
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