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Five acts that violate the overtime provisions of the FLSA
There are 40 million reasons to make sure your wage and hour practices are in good shape. I am still doing webinars on violations of the FLSA because employers still make these mistakes. I was...
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“Comp Time”: A Big “No-No” in the Private Sector- From the Archive
I often get comments on my posts that are questions or pleas for help. I received on yesterday on the subject of comp time. As a result, I decided to republish this post from the past to explain how a...
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Three Hump Day Reads for HR
Three HR lessons to educate you in the middle of the week. As many of you know, I occasionally point out the blogs of others that I think do a great job of informing you or are just plain interesting....
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Paying for overtime with cash under the table is NOT a good practice!
Paying for overtime in straight time cash is illegal. Reading through the USDOL press releases it appears that many companies have problems paying for overtime. Case after case show companies being...
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What the Heck is “Doffing?”
I originally wrote this post back in 2011. You would think this is a simple issue, yet employers continue to get it wrong. Just yesterday I read an article written by the attorneys of Fox Rothchild,...
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If you require the overtime, pay the overtime
Employers and wage mistakes and wage theft. I am amazed sometimes at the things employers will do to avoid paying overtime. If this is done unintentionally, it is a sign of ignorance and lack of proper...
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Videos to explain the FLSA
I opened up my mail today to read yet another story about a company violating the Fair Labor Standards Act. Once again it was a restaurant that was so bad they had to pay $654,366 in back wages to 567...
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Double wrong-doing: Another case of bad HR
Paying employees in cash to avoid records of overtime is a violation of the FLSA I have been in HR for a long time and I have seen many errors. Every company I worked for, however, knew that nonexempt...
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The USDOL is revising the definition of “Regular Rate of Pay”
Back in January, I wrote a post entitled What is the “regular rate of pay according to the USDOL.” At that time I explained that many employers made FLSA overtime mistakes because they did not...
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What exactly does “exempt” mean?
Being exempt means you can be required to work whatever hours your employer requires. This is a fairly consistent question from employers today so I decided to rerun this post. There is an update at...
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