C ongratulations on your new role as manager. But before you celebrate, you may want to ask your boss a few questions—and do some quick math.
Employers are increasingly giving workers phony job promotions and creating lofty-sounding managerial titles to avoid paying overtime wages.
Study: Bogus and inflated job titles cost workers at least $4 billion overtime wages per year | ...
Companies avoid paying about $4 billion in overtime wages by inventing dubious titles for US employees such as "director of first impressions" and "lead shower door installer," according to new research on a common practice that skirts federal labor law.
The practice, often deployed by retail and restaurant companies, takes advantage of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which exempts firms from paying overtime wages if the employee is a manager and gets paid a salary above a certain threshold.
Employers Skirt $4 Billion in Overtime Pay With Fake Job Titles (1)
Companies avoid paying about $4 billion in overtime wages by inventing dubious titles for US employees such as "director of first impressions" and "lead shower door installer," according to new research on a common practice that skirts federal labor law.
The practice, often deployed by retail and restaurant companies, takes advantage of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), which exempts firms from paying overtime wages if the employee is a manager and gets paid a salary above a certain threshold.
FP SCOTUS Predictions: How Will Supreme Court Rule on a $200,000 Employee’s Claim for ...
Imagine this scenario: You pay an employee a substantial daily rate — which works out to more than $200,000 a year. Still, the employee claims they’re entitled to overtime pay because they were paid a daily — rather than weekly — rate.
Here’s a quick review of the relevant overtime rules: Generally, employees must be paid 1.5 times their regular rate for all hours worked beyond 40 in a workweek.
Willow Grove's TriMED Health to pay $3.8M in back wages for dodging overtime
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TriMED Healthcare will have to pay back wages and damages to 433 workers. The Department of Labor has continued to find numerous wage violations in the home health industry.
Home health-care workers employed by a Willow Grove-based company will receive back pay after the U.S. Department of Labor found that they were illegally denied overtime wages.
Labor Department Wins New Try at Overtime Pay for Unitil Workers
The Labor Department can try again to show that Unitil Service Corp. owes its dispatchers and controllers unpaid wages after the First Circuit clarified the proper analysis for evaluating whether an overtime exemption applies.
Courts must determine whether workers are administrative and therefore exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act's overtime requirements using a relational analysis, the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit said .
1st Circ. Revives DOL's Wage Case Against Energy Utility - Law360
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DOL: 10 Las Vegas restaurants failed to pay over 100 employees overtime wages
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The Wage and Hour Division encourages workers with questions about their employers' pay practices to contact the agency. Calls can be answered confidentially and in more than 200 languages by the division's professionals.
Oregon's overtime law could end up costing farmworkers | kgw.com
SALEM, Ore. — A new law took effect in Oregon this month , one that begins a five-year process of mandating that farmworkers receive overtime pay after working a certain amount of hours per week.
That threshold is set to gradually drop over the next few years until it's in alignment with other full-time work. In 2025, it goes down to 48 hours. By 2027, it will be 40 hours.
NYPD Track Record on Overtime Spending Casts Doubt on Budget Claims - THE CITY
Under Mayor Eric Adams' latest budget plan, many city agencies from libraries to public schools would be strained mightily to trim costs without reducing services or laying off workers.
Under the preliminary budget Adams unveiled Thursday, the NYPD budgeted $452 million for overtime in coming fiscal year 2024, which begins July 1. Based on the department's track record, that number seems highly unrealistic.
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