The vast majority of HR professionals report that their company requires employees to gain approval prior to working overtime, but many who have such a policy have not put it in writing, according to a recent Compensation.BLR.com poll.
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., has agreed to pay more than $3.9 million in overtime, penalties, and interest to approximately 50,000 employees in the state of California, the state's labor commissioner announced.
Tammy McCutchen says that she has been fielding questions about classifying employees as exempt or nonexempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act for the past three years, but at the Society for Human Resource Management's 59th Annual Conference and Exposition in Las Vegas, she was offering answers on another aspect of the law: calculating overtime correctly.
Allstate Corp. will pay as much as $120 million to settle claims that some of its white-collar employees in California were routinely required to work long hours without overtime pay.
Office Depot has agreed to pay $3.3 million to settle a class-action lawsuit
alleging the company misclassified assistant managers in Colorado as exempt
from overtime, attorneys for the plaintiffs tell the Denver Post.
As stock options and bonuses become smaller and less prevalent in Silicon Valley because
of new accounting rules and economic reasons, some workers at technology companies
have begun to seek overtime pay, the New York Times reports.
Senator Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts has proposed legislation that would
prohibit hospitals from requiring nurses to work past their scheduled work shifts unless the federal,
state, or local government declares an official state of emergency, the Boston Globe reports.
A Senate committee voted 16-13 last week to approve a measure that would block new
overtime rules that became effective August 23, the Associated Press reports. The legislation, which was attached to a larger spending bill, faces a number
of hurdles.
Just weeks after new rules governing overtime went into effect, the U.S. House
of Representatives voted 223 to 193 to prevent the Department of Labor from
enforcing some of the new rules, the Washington Post reports.
Today, employers face the deadline for complying with new rules governing who
is eligible for overtime, but debate over the rules continues among politicians, the New York Times reports.
