Six Georgia paramedics who were switched from nonexempt to exempt status charged that their reclassification violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). Because they had become firefighters, the county made the change under a congressional amendment to FLSA. The paramedics disagreed.
A large group of Maryland corrections workers filed a grievance over a new requirement that they fill in for nonexempt employees after their regular hours. The governor had ordered the prison system to reduce overtime by $127,000 a year, and having exempt officers perform extra duties was how the system coped with the mandate.
A Virginia sales executive was either fired or laid off less than 2 years after being hired. In response, he sued, alleging that his former employer had misclassified him as exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) and now owed him overtime. Two weeks later, the company counter-sued, alleging fraud on a particular sales contract. The former employee added a retaliation charge to his FLSA suit.
A New York staffing agency has many nurses on its rolls. The agency's clients are hospitals, who contact the agency to obtain nursing care for their patients. But the U.S. Department of Labor has been after the agency for years, charging that it doesn't properly pay its nurses for overtime work.
Wage-and-hour law is making more and more headlines. Some of America's biggest corporations, including Wal-Mart, IBM, and top supermarket and brokerage fines have been hit with huge lawsuits, ending in equally large settlements.
If given the choice between receiving compensatory time off or overtime pay, a majority of human resource professionals would take the former, according to a recent Compensation.BLR.com poll.
The U.S. Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division has unveiled a new tool for helping employers and workers understand and calculate overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Two of the best ways to prevent common mistakes involving wage & hour rules are conducting regular audits and educating decision makers, according to two experts who recently led a BLR audio conference.
The answer to our title is "Because the stakes are high." That was the message delivered by Keller Allen of Allen & McLane, P.C., who spoke at the annual convention of the Northwest Human Resources Management Association in Spokane.
