Along with recently passing a new health care bill, the House also passed the Working Families Flexibility Act. The Act would amend the Fair Labor Standards Act to allow employees who work more than 40 hours in a workweek to choose between overtime vs. comp time pay...
As you may know, the federal overtime provisions contained in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) require that non-exempt employees covered by the Act must receive overtime pay for hours worked over 40 in a week at a rate of at least time and one-half their regular...
On December 28, 2016, the proposed overtime exemption rule for employers in New York State was published by the New York Department of Labor, with the new rule taking effect on December 31, 2016. The following salary levels will now become the threshold for the...
UPDATE: The New York Department of Labor published this final rule on December 28, 2016, officially increasing the salary threshold applicable to exempt executive and administrative employees in New York State. While most employers know about the preliminary...
On Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge for the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas issued a nationwide preliminary injunction on the Department of Labor’s new overtime rules, which were slated to go into effect in just over a week on December 1, 2016....