Apart from the legal necessity of complying with FLSA, the decision to reclassify an employee’s job description from non-exempt to overtime exempt or vice versa can have unexpected rewards and risks.
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Tags: exempt, FLSA, non-exempt
Many firms dock a salaried employee who has used up his or her allotted paid time off (PTO) and is then absent from work. Is this policy legal under FLSA?
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You’re not imagining things if it seems like you read about more pay-related employee lawsuits and court awards than ever before.
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Tags: Compliance, FLSA, Wal-Mart
An ever-growing percentage of employees have blogs, My Space or Facebook pages. Sometimes these sites reveal things that go on behind employers’ backs.
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There are millions of illegal aliens working in the U.S. today. There’s also a record number of FLSA wage and overtime lawsuits. It was inevitable the two issues would overlap.
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Don’t feel bad if you have trouble keeping track of which types of deductions the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) does and doesn’t allow your company to take from exempt employees’ paychecks. The rules are pretty murky.
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