The Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) defines certain employees as exempt and others as nonexempt. Nonexempt employees are generally entitled to receive overtime pay at a rate of at least one and one-half times the employee’s regular rate of pay. Overtime is often easy to calculate on straight weekly earnings, but what happens when employees
The U.S. Department of Labor announced this week a final rule making an additional estimated 1.2 million workers eligible for overtime pay. The final rule, effective January 1, 2020, marks the first update to the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”) minimum wage and overtime pay thresholds in 15 years.
The final rule updates the “white
Snow day office closures and calls from employees unable to shovel their cars out of their driveways cause regular headaches for Minnesota employers in the winter. Now that winter is here and these issues are likely to arise, employers should review the wage and hour laws triggered by inclement weather and also review any related