HR Daily Advisor

JULY 26, 2017

In addition to meeting the minimum salary threshold, a worker must perform duties that are primarily executive, administrative, or professional. The 2016 rule immediately triggered opposition from employers, which maintained that the salary test change was too drastic. The current $455-per-week level has been in effect since 2004.

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HR Daily Advisor

OCTOBER 10, 2017

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) defines an employer to include “any person acting directly or indirectly in the interest of an employer in relation to an employee,” including a public agency. Unlike most other federal employment laws, employers do not need to employ a threshold number of employees to be covered.

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HR Daily Advisor

MARCH 21, 2017

However, FLSA regulations exempt certain salaried employees from the overtime pay laws if: The employees are paid on a “salary basis” and receive at least a prescribed minimum salary; and. They meet special duty criteria established by the U.S. is a Legal Editor for BLR’s human resources and employment law publications.

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HR Morning

JUNE 24, 2016

Turns out there’s more to the FLSA’s overtime exemption rule changes (and salary threshold) than meets the eye. A former DOL administrator recently opened a lot of employers’ eyes with what she had to say about the new rule. . She’s now an employment law attorney with the firm Littler Mendelson, P.C.

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HR Daily Advisor

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

This broad definition of hours worked may require that an employee be compensated for time the employer does not otherwise consider working time, such as travel time, waiting time and certain meal, rest and sleep periods, and time the employee is required to spend in training, at seminars, or in meetings. The courts and the U.S.

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HR Daily Advisor

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

This broad definition of hours worked may require that an employee be compensated for time the employer does not otherwise consider working time, such as travel time, waiting time and certain meal, rest and sleep periods, and time the employee is required to spend in training, at seminars, or in meetings. The courts and the U.S.

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HRIS Payroll Software

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

The new rules will replace the legislation that has been in effect since 2004 and will potentially affect about 4.2 This means that in order to qualify as exempt from overtime, employees must meet these pay thresholds or else be paid as hourly workers with overtime. million workers. Authored by: Dave Rietsema. Sources: [link].

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Business Management Daily

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

You should offer these workers reasonable accommodations to keep them on track: for example, time off for therapy, counseling, and attending Narcotics Anonymous meetings or even inpatient care for related psychiatric problems like depression. Many heavy drinkers may meet that test. MAT Therapy.

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HRWatchdog

DECEMBER 17, 2015

By contrast, the agency only received 75,280 comments the last time changes were made to the overtime rule in 2004. Under the proposed federal rule, more California employees would potentially be nonexempt under the FLSA and entitled to overtime because they don’t meet the federal minimum salary threshold. Not a member?

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HR Daily Advisor

APRIL 19, 2018

According to 29 CFR 785.38, when an “employee is required to report at a meeting place to receive instructions or to perform other work there, or to pick up and to carry tools, the travel from the designated place to the work place is part of the day’s work, and must be counted as hours worked regardless of contract, custom, or practice.”.

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HRWatchdog

MARCH 16, 2016

By contrast, the agency only received 75,280 comments the last time changes were made to the overtime rule in 2004. Under the proposed federal rule, more California employees would potentially be nonexempt under the FLSA and entitled to overtime because they don’t meet the federal minimum salary threshold. So what is the process now?

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HR Daily Advisor

AUGUST 16, 2017

Determining what is a reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) is meant to be an interactive process between the employer and the employee. However, after exerting significant amounts of energy in the process, one Illinois employer got a reaction it had hoped to avoid—a lawsuit. Norway, We Aren’t.

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HR Daily Advisor

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

Bar none, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is the hardest employment law to administer for employers and the easiest to abuse by employees. That double whammy often results in frustrated employers making rash decisions, which, of course, lead to lawsuits. Nadezhda1906 / iStock / Getty Images Plus.

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Insperity

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

If not, the employer must prove that they are exempt. Since 2004 (the last time the DOL updated the regulations), companies have had to pay white collar employees overtime if they made under $455 per week or $23,660 a year. Meet the minimum salary level (“salary level test”). Effective Dec.

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HR Daily Advisor

JULY 27, 2018

The NLRB not only added a balancing test but also significantly altered its jurisprudence on the reasonable interpretation of handbook rules, severely criticizing the effects of the previous standard set forth in 2004 under Lutheran Heritage Village-Livonia.

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HR Daily Advisor

JUNE 14, 2017

According to the federal Department of Labor (DOL), the FLSA does not allow uniforms, or other items which are considered to be primarily for the benefit or convenience of the employer, to be included as wages. Thus, an employer may not take credit for such items in meeting its obligations toward paying the minimum wage.

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HR Daily Advisor

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Hours worked can also include waiting time; travel time, other than time spent commuting to and from the employee’s regular place of work; breaks or meal periods that are less than 20 minutes long; and time the employee is required to spend in training, at seminars, or in meetings. See our previous minimum wage map. Prince, J.D.,

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HR Daily Advisor

NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Sam” began working for the city of Flushing, Michigan in 2004. Management held a meeting between Sam and his alleged harassers on August 29, and they “agreed things were going much better between them now.” Sam’s manager recalled that he was unable to finish sentences or put paragraphs together during the meeting.

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HR Daily Advisor

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

In Seattle, employers must provide new employees with a good faith estimate of the median hours an employee can expect to work, including on-call shifts. Employees may request a preferred schedule in order to meet their commitments outside working hours. Employers must post employees’ work schedules 14 days in advance.

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Namely

MAY 19, 2016

On May 18, the Department of Labor unveiled new rules significantly altering the wages test for the first time since 2004. Do not rely on this information without consulting an attorney specializing in employment law, the Fair Labor Standards Act, and your state's overtime laws. So What Is Changing?

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Zenefits

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Approximately 100 metro areas and counties may meet the 200,000 resident threshold, each potentially making recommendations that could become statewide policy. All meetings must be held in an open/public format, according to this law. The law: Prohibits retaliation against any employee who files a claim under the bill.

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Ongig

MAY 6, 2024

. “Grandfather” — The employer below would be better off using the phrase “Legacy Clause” rather than “Grandfather Clause” The term “grandfathered in” in a job posting can imply unconscious bias. It also violates the anti-discrimination laws. But it’s a bad move.

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HR Daily Advisor

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

” Because Ricky didn’t seek recovery under Section 226(e), he didn’t need to prove he sustained an “injury” as a result of knowing or intentional violations by the employer. The post Mistakes in Wage Statements Can Cost California Employers Under PAGA appeared first on HR Daily Advisor.

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Ohio Employer's Law

APRIL 28, 2017

For what’s it’s worth, I prefer what many consider the definitive version of this song—from George Harrison’s 2004 induction into the Rock Hall —performed with zero Beatles, one spawn of Beatles, two Traveling Wilburys, and one beautiful and blistering Prince guitar solo —The New York Times has a wonderful account of that performance here ).

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HR Daily Advisor

MARCH 24, 2017

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that employers pay overtime to employees earning less than $455 per week (which amounts to $23,660 per year), regardless of whether they meet one of the law’s duties tests for exemption. The current, lower threshold was adopted in 2004 under President George W.

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HR Daily Advisor

APRIL 11, 2017

When he requests Tuesday off, the employer says it would be “unduly burdensome” for him to be out that day and offers him Thursday instead (meeting the “within a reasonable period” requirement). The employer informs him that he will receive the pay in a month. For a full discussion of that case law, see below.

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