Principal Financial Group has paid $237,490 in back overtime wages to 53 salaried
employees who were misclassified as exempt from the overtime requirements of
the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), according to the Department of Labor.
American Valet and Limousine Inc., located in Phoenix, has agreed to pay $79,255
in penalties after the Department of Labor accused the company of willful violations
of both the minimum wage and overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards
Act (FLSA).
A federal appeals court has ruled that a practice of reducing the hours and
the base salary of exempt employees during a slow season may be permitted. The
employees would still be paid a predetermined amount unless the salaries were
changed so often that the employees in essence were paid an hourly wage.
Cable Express, Inc. of Westerville, Ohio, has agreed to pay approximately 1,000
cable installers $1,008,751 in back wages after the Department of Labor accused
the company of violating the overtime provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
The Senate is expected to vote soon on competing measures to boost the minimum
wage, legislation that would allow employers to offer flex-time, and a change that
would exempt more businesses from the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Associated
Press reports.
The Supreme Court has agreed to decide whether meatpacking plants and other employers must compensate
workers for the waiting and walking time associated with donning and doffing
safety gear, the Associated Press reports.
Before approving legislation that would move many class-action lawsuits to
federal courts, the U.S. House of Representatives rejected a measure that would
have exempted civil rights and wage lawsuits from the legislation, Reuters
reports.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. won a new hearing in a case in which pharmacists allege
they are entitled to overtime pay because the retail giant treated them as hourly
employees by adjusting their salaries based on workload, the Associated Press reports.
Three supermarket chains have agreed to pay $22.4 million to more than 2,000
janitors to settle a lawsuit alleging that the chains knew that contractors
the chains hired underpaid the janitors in violation of wage and hour law, the
Associated Press reports.
