by Girish Anand | Oct 23, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, Uncategorized
In 1993, the nurses at Pomona Valley Hospital Medical Center in California voluntarily created and voted for a plan to work 12-hour instead of 8-hour shifts while retaining their hourly rate without being paid overtime. Under the plan, the nurses went from $22.83 an...
by Girish Anand | Sep 4, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law
A study done by the Center for Urban Economic Development, the National Employment Law Project, and the UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment has turned up some startling statistics revealing persistent wage abuse. Surveying 4,300 low-wage workers in...
by Girish Anand | Aug 28, 2009 | Federal Labor Law, Minimum Wage Law, Personnel Concepts, Uncategorized
We’ve just posted a new white paper in that section on the Personnel Concepts new Web site entitled “Popular Misconceptions,” in which we examine the ingenious ways that employers seek to stay off the overtime-pay radar of the Department of Labor...