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FLSA Amendment Eliminates Tip Sharing for Managers
The rules around tip pooling have been mired in litigation since 2011, when regulations came into effect that forbid tip pooling between employees who customarily receive tips and those who do not. The recently passed federal budget bill has created clarity by...
Best Practices for Classifying Employees
Did you know that just because you are paying an employee on a salary basis, it does not immediately make that employee ineligible for overtime? The crucial distinction is whether the employee is exempt or non-exempt from wage regulations that cover overtime. The...
Reducing Exempt Employee Pay: When is it Permitted?
Is reducing exempt employee pay permitted if they work less than 40 hours in a week? The answer is almost always no. The very idea of the overtime exemption, at least in the case of White Collar employees, is that you are paying them to complete important tasks that...
