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• Feds Are Knocking—Are You Ready?

  
  HR Daily Advisor - Practical Human Resource Tips, News & Advice. Updated Daily. — Authority: 422
  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.
  6 days ago

• FLSA Audit: 9 Compliance Tips and a Checklist

  
  HR Daily Advisor - Practical Human Resource Tips, News & Advice. Updated Daily. — Authority: 422
  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.
  1 week ago

• Indiana Comp Time

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 422
  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 ...
  1 week ago

• Georgia Child Labor

  
  Labor Law Talk Blog — Authority: 422
  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 ...
  2 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: 104
  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 ...
  2 weeks ago

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

  
  Wage & Hour - Development & Highlights — Authority: 406
  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 ...
  2 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 ...
  2 weeks ago

• Exempt/Hourly

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 436
  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 [...]
  3 weeks ago

• Ninth Circuit Upholds FLSA OT Plan

  
  What's New in Employment Law? — Authority: 115
  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 ...
  3 weeks ago

• 9th Cir: FLSA Permits Different Pay for Same Work on Different Shifts

  
  Alaska Employment Law — Authority: 123
  The 9th Circuit has upheld an employer’s use of a lower regular pay rate for employees who work on 12-hour shift than for other employees doing the same work on 8-hour shifts.  The employer had moved some employees to the 12-hour schedule at their own request, and with their (and their union’s) consent to the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dangers of letting non-exempt workers go home with cell phones

  
  HRMorning.com — Authority: 139
  Non-exempt employees who respond to work-related e-mails and text messages after-hours must be paid for their time. That’s the message in a recent federal court decision. A group of retail sales associates and supervisors just filed a lawsuit against their employer, T-Mobile USA, for back wages and unpaid OT. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Update on Alaska Employment Law Section CLE

  
  Alaska Employment Law — Authority: 123
  The materials from Friday’s half-day CLE are here (warning: 320 pages).Points not included in the materials include:1)  Contrary to common belief, payment of a $30,000 salary won’t meet the requirements for a white-collar exemption under the Alaska Wage and Hour Act.  The minimum salary currently must be ...
  4 weeks ago

• Is $95K PowerPoint Preparer Exempt from Overtime?

  
  HR Daily Advisor - Practical Human Resource Tips, News & Advice. Updated Daily. — Authority: 422
  Is an employee who earns $95,000 preparing PowerPoint® presentations for very high-level financial presentations exempt from overtime under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) “artistic exemption”?
  4 weeks ago

• Comp time

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 436
  This use of the term *comp time* is unique to your company. Your policy is lawful as long as the work by an hourly employee is during the same payroll week. This is not really comp time — it is merely hours worked. Example: Juan normally works 7 am to 3pm Monday through Friday. This [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Non-Exempt Employee Traveling

  
  Human Resource Blog — Authority: 436
  No, there is no set minimum number of hours that the employee must be paid for. This is a deceptively complex topic, but we will try to simplify it. Under the federal FLSA or Fair Labor Standards Act, the employee is entitled to payment for all time spent working. So if the employee works a [...]
  4 weeks ago

• Understaffing leads to 77% rise in overtime suits: How to stay safe

  
  HRRecruitingAlert.com — Authority: 111
  Companies are scrambling to get more done with fewer people. They just need to make sure they’re doing it legally. More companies are being hit with suits over unpaid wages and overtime than ever before. Since 2004, wage-and-hour lawsuits under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) have risen 77%, according to the ...
  8 weeks ago

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