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• Withholding paycheck

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  No, this is not legal. The federal minimum wage law (the FLSA) and various state minimum wage laws require that an employee be paid for all hours worked. An exempt employee msut be paid in full for any week he or she does any work at all, without regard for the quantity or quality of [...]
  7 hours ago

• Another FLSA Class Action on Exempt Status of Dispatchers: The Threat Grows

  
  Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights — Authority: 107
  A federal judge has ruled that a dispatcher, who was suing as the named plaintiff in a FLSA collective action seeking overtime, was not able to prove that he was “similarly situated” to other employees and this the judge refused to grant even the conditional certification necessary to keep the case going.  The ...
  2 days ago

• Four legal ways to cut pay costs in tough times

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 139
  Surviving the downturn often means cutting hours and pay to keep the company afloat. That’s understandable and legal, unless you make one of the common cutback mistakes and run afoul of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The four ways to steer clear of legal trouble: 1. Work cutbacks in full-week increments. ...
  2 days ago

• Four legal ways to cut pay costs in tough times

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  Surviving the downturn often means cutting hours and pay to keep the company afloat. That’s understandable and legal, unless you make one of the common cutback mistakes and run afoul of the Fair Labor Standards Act. The four ways to steer clear of legal trouble: 1. Work cutbacks in full-week increments. ...
  2 days ago

• Salaried employee with non-exempt status

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  There is no such thing as *banked hours* in private business.Under federal law, an employee is either exempt or non-exempt.Non-exempt employees are hourly employees who are entitled to overtime when they work more than 40 hours in the payroll period. Overtime cannot be *banked* for future use. (There is an exception ...
  3 days ago

• Exempt employees - Closing Early vs Vacation Time

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  This is a matter of a best practice in HR rather than employment law. The only relevant federal employment law is the FLSA, the Fair Labor Standards Act. The FLSA states that an exempt employee who works any portion of the day, must receive his or her full days salary. The law does not specify [...]
  1 week ago

• Laid off salary-exempt employee

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  No, the employee is not entitled to payment for the full pay period, or even for the full week.The regulations regarding exempt employee salaries are under the federal FLSA, the Fair Labor Standards Act. The FLSA permits an employer to prorate the first and last weeks salary, based on the number of days that the [...]
  1 week ago

• Exempt employees - Closing Early vs Vacation Time

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  This is a matter of a best practice in HR rather than employment law. The only relevant federal employment law is the FLSA, the Fair Labor Standards Act. The FLSA states that an exempt employee who works any portion of the day, must receive his or her full days salary. The law does not specify [...]
  1 week ago

• FLSA and the flu: Making sure your sick-leave policies don’t break the law

  
  Work Fanatic — Authority: 139
  What’s worse than having a bunch of employees out sick with the pandemic flu? Getting hit with a labor-law violation because of your “flexible” policies that accommodate sick employees. Here’s where good companies run into trouble. They – • Work short-handed while employees are out sick • Shut their ...
  1 week ago

• FLSA and the flu: Making sure your sick-leave policies don’t break the law

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  What’s worse than having a bunch of employees out sick with the pandemic flu? Getting hit with a labor-law violation because of your “flexible” policies that accommodate sick employees. Here’s where good companies run into trouble. They – • Work short-handed while employees are out sick • Shut their ...
  1 week ago

• Feds Are Knocking—Are You Ready?

  
  HR Daily Advisor - Practical Human Resource Tips, News & Advice. Updated Daily. — Authority: 464
  In yesterdays Advisor, attorney Marc L. Jacuzzi pointed to the surge in wage and hour lawsuits and gave tips for preventive audits. Today, well finish his tips and take a look at a unique HR audit system.
  3 weeks ago

• FLSA Audit: 9 Compliance Tips and a Checklist

  
  HR Daily Advisor - Practical Human Resource Tips, News & Advice. Updated Daily. — Authority: 464
  Why is now the time to conduct a wage and hour audit at your company? Because now is the time that you are going to get sued, warns attorney Marc L. Jacuzzi.
  3 weeks ago

• Indiana Comp Time

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  An Indiana business owner wants to know, “Can I grant comp time to workers instead of paying overtime?” Across the state, an employee writes, “I was just recently hired in an hourly job. My new employer very graciously agreed to give me two weeks of unpaid vacation, to take a long-planned trip. I’d like to ...
  4 weeks ago

• Georgia Child Labor

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 420
  The U.S. Department of Labor recently identified a major problem with child labor in the agriculture industry in Georgia and across the nation.   While many think of this issue in conjunction with sweatshops in Asia, there is a very real Georgia child labor problem.   Under the federal FLSA or Fair ...
  4 weeks ago

• Challenge to 12-Hour Shift Pay Practice Defeated in Significant Class Action Lawsuit Before the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeal

  
  Labor Employment Law Blog — Authority: 404
  Sheppard Mullin partner Douglas Hart achieved a major victory for employers everywhere when the U.S. Court of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit issued its long-awaited decision in the class action lawsuit entitled Parth v. Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center on October 22, 2009. The Ninth Circuit ruled as a matter of ...
  5 weeks ago

• Court Strikes Claims In US Steel/Steelworkers FLSA Class Action

  
  Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights — Authority: 107
  In a case entitled Clifton Sandifer et al. v. U.S. Steel Corp. a federal judge has cut out some claims from a work time class action suit, but has allowed one major allegation to remain in the case. That cause of action involves whether the employees should be paid for the time spent in walking from their locker room ...
  5 weeks ago

• Answers to tricky HR questions: The regs on rounding workers’ hours

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  Our team of experts fields real-life everyday questions from HR managers and gives practical answers that can be applied by any HR pro in the same situation. Today’s question: What does the Fair Labor Standards Act say about rounding hours up or down? Question: We just made the switch to an electronic ...
  5 weeks ago

• Exempt/Hourly

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 434
  No, it is not possible for an hourly employee to be exempt under federal law. The first requirement to be an exempt employee is that the employee must be paid the same salary every week, regardless of how many hours the employee works. An hourly employee is never exempt under the federal FLSA, or Fair [...]
  5 weeks ago

• Ninth Circuit Upholds FLSA OT Plan

  
  What's New in Employment Law? — Authority: 107
  Ponoma Valley Hospital pays nurses one rate for 12 hour shifts, and a higher rate for eight hour shifts. The nurses requested the 12-hour shifts. To accommodate them, the hospital calculated how much it would have to pay to neutralize the payroll effect of the 12-hour shift.\ An employee claimed that the differing ...
  5 weeks ago

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