Question: I’m going to hire a new employee soon. I want this person to be exempt from the normal overtime and meal and rest period rules. Can I make this person exempt by paying them a higher salary?

In a case of statutory interpretation, the California Court of Appeal in Hirdman v. Charter Communications, LLC recently affirmed a win for the employer, holding that outside sales employees can be ...

A&P employees only earn comp time when they work on a holiday or skeleton crew day, in which case they are entitled to earn comp time at a 1:1 rate. Additionally, A&P employees can earn comp time by ...

Despite an employee’s being highly compensated, the Sixth Circuit reversed a summary judgment order from the district court, finding that even though the pipe inspector was highly compensated, his pay ...

Many employers will see their bottom line affected by the U.S. Department of Labor's final rule increasing the minimum salary for employees classified under the white-collar exemptions from $23,660 to ...

Any day now, the Department of Labor is expected to issue new rules proposing changes to the "white-collar" overtime pay exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The new rules likely will open ...

Getting Fair Labor Standards Act compliance wrong can cost you. Get it right before someone files a complaint. You have a slacker exempt employee who just showed up three hours late, again. You dock ...

A federal judge ruled that TEKsystems wrongly classified its recruiters as exempt from overtime, finding they sell staffing ...