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 ...

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 ...

Any day now, the Department of Labor is expected to issue new rules proposing changes to the "white-collar" overtime pay exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The new rules likely will open ...

In a unanimous opinion decided January 15, 2025, E.M.D. Sales, Inc., v. Carrerra et al., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the less stringent preponderance of evidence standard, instead of the clear ...

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?

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 ...

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Last spring, the Department of Labor announced the minimum salary required for an employee to be considered salaried exempt would jump up from $684 per week to $1,059 per week, or $55,068 per year.