For various business reasons, an employer may determine that it needs to move a full-time employee to part-time status. Before an employer makes such a determination, it should pause and carefully ...

With the DOL’s new overtime exemption rule set to go into effect on July 1 and no ruling yet on the state of Texas’s motion to put the rule on hold, employers will need to decide what to do with ...

Sid Lewis is a partner at Jones Walker and leader of the firm’s labor and employment practice group. As a labor and employment law attorney, misclassification is by far the most common mistake I see ...

Many employers are planning to reclassify employees to non-exempt status now that the Labor Department is significantly raising the salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime pay. You ...

To qualify for exemption, employees generally must meet all the following tests: Duties Test - The employee's job duties must primarily involve executive, administrative or professional duties as ...

Getting Fair Labor Standards Act compliance wrong can cost you. Get it right before someone files a complaint. You have a slacker exempt employee who just showed up three hours late, again. You dock ...

Question: I’m going to hire a new employee soon. I want this person to be exempt from the normal overtime and meal and rest period rules. Can I make this person exempt by paying them a higher salary?

It is the practice of the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) to ensure that Non-Exempt Employees are scheduled in such a way that does not require them to work in excess of 40 hours during a ...