Posts tagged 'overtime pay'

Previously, WorkWise Compliance reported that a Texas District Court blocked the Department of Labor’s (DOL’s) new overtime exemption rules for Texas government employees. Specifically, on June 28th, 2024, a federal judge in Texas ruled that the DOL likely exceeded its authority in implementing its final overtime provisions rule. Additionally, the State of Texas (in State of Texas v. U.S. Dep’t of Labor) filed suit trying to stop the new overtime rule from taking place. 

The U.S. Supreme Court may end up deciding the issue, but for now one circuit court is saying yea and another nay to whether pharmaceutical sales representatives are eligible for overtime pay. The issue centers on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) exemption from overtime rules for those employees who are engaged in outside sales. Pharma reps and their attorneys argue that what the representat...

The Department of Labor (DOL) announced recently that it has collected more than $300 million in back wages since 2009, benefiting some 385,000 workers. Typically, back wages represent overtime pay that was withheld either knowingly or unknowingly. Since taking over, the Obama administration and DOL Secretary Hilda Solis have beefed up their inspection force by hiring some 300 additional W...

If you find yourself reclassifying your employees as non-exempt (from previously being exempt), then you could end up in deep legal doo-doo like the Michigan Bell Telephone Company. Reason? It doesn't take employees long to figure out that, if they're doing the same jobs as exempt as when they were non-exempt, then they were probably cheated out of overtime prior to the reclassification. Voila-...

The Department of Labor (DOL) permits companies to round off overtime, "provided that it is used in such a manner that it will not result, over a period of time, in failure to compensate the employees properly for all the time they have actually worked." The New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development disagrees with the DOL and forbids the practice in the Garden State. ...