by Girish Anand | Feb 16, 2011 | Federal Labor Law
The U.S. Supreme Court may end up deciding the issue, but for now one circuit court is saying yea and another nay to whether pharmaceutical sales representatives are eligible for overtime pay. The issue centers on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) exemption from...
by Girish Anand | Dec 3, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
The Department of Labor (DOL) announced recently that it has collected more than $300 million in back wages since 2009, benefiting some 385,000 workers. Typically, back wages represent overtime pay that was withheld either knowingly or unknowingly. Since taking over,...
by Girish Anand | May 6, 2010 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law
If you find yourself reclassifying your employees as non-exempt (from previously being exempt), then you could end up in deep legal doo-doo like the Michigan Bell Telephone Company. Reason? It doesn’t take employees long to figure out that, if they’re...
by Girish Anand | Dec 2, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, State Labor Law
The Department of Labor (DOL) permits companies to round off overtime, "provided that it is used in such a manner that it will not result, over a period of time, in failure to compensate the employees properly for all the time they have actually worked." The...