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For employers, this decision provides a clearer roadmap for defending against overtime claims from high-earning employees. For employees, it’s a reminder that salary level and job duties both play a ...

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 ...

Each year, California’s minimum wage rises, but along with hourly workers’ wages increasing, so too does the salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime. For an employee to be exempt ...

You have a slacker exempt employee who just showed up three hours late, again. You dock her pay, because fair is fair. Reasonable, right? Congratulations! You just broke a federal law. If she’s a ...

To qualify for exemption, employees generally must meet all the following tests: Duties Test - The employee's job duties must primarily involve executive, administrative or professional duties as ...

The U.S. Department of Labor also addressed exemptions for learned professionals and commission-earning employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act.