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.
House-Senate conference committee members dropped legislation that would have
blocked many of the Bush administration's new overtime rules, which became effective August 23, the Des Moines Register reports.
The Department of Labor is reminding employers that new rules governing overtime
eligibility are still in effect and the department will continue to educate employers about
them, despite efforts in Congress to block the new regulations.
With the surprise success last week of a House vote on legislation aimed at
derailing the new overtime-exemption rules under the Fair Labor Standards Act
(FLSA), lobbyists on both sides of the issue are focusing on the Senate, where
a committee is set to consider a similar measure.
