Under both federal and state law, overtime compensation owed to a nonexempt employee must be based on the employee’s “regular rate of pay.” That regular rate includes not only the employee’s standard ...

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If an employee is paid a bonus along with regular wages, and if the employee has also worked overtime, the laws in many states mandate that bonuses should be paid on the overtime pay as well. This ...

Using Microsoft Excel, you can track your employee's wages using a formula. The most important formulas involve total hours worked, regular time hours worked, overtime hours worked and overtime pay.

We outlined the flurry of Opinion Letters that the Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued, but an important topic in one of those letters ...

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The U.S. Department of Labor on Thursday proposed more changes to regulations governing overtime pay. But this move could make it easier for employers to offer better benefits to workers and could ...

DOL uses opinion letters to respond to fact-specific employer queries about wage-hour compliance. The Obama administration had discontinued the use of the letters in 2010 in favor of more broadly ...

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The Fair Labor Standards Act generally requires that non-exempt employees receive overtime for hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek, at a rate of at least one-and-a-half times their regular rate ...