An exempt employee is a salaried worker who is not entitled to overtime pay or minimum wage protections under the Fair Labor ...

A non-exempt employee qualifies to earn at least minimum wage and receive overtime under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act ...

News Tribune file photo: Paul Buckley, Jefferson City's director of human resources, works at his computer in this photo from ...

Many employers are planning to reclassify employees to non-exempt status now that the Labor Department is significantly raising the salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime pay. You ...

Lee Jacobs, a partner at Barclay Damon in New York, has over 16 years of legal experience representing corporate clients in complex matters and on day-to-day employment issues, especially in the ...

"Even though you do the managerial stuff, that is only like 20 minutes a day, or an hour a day. The rest of your day is unloading trucks, cleaning bathrooms, stocking shelves, something that a clerk ...

In a unanimous opinion decided January 15, 2025, E.M.D. Sales, Inc., v. Carrerra et al., the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the less stringent preponderance of evidence standard, instead of the clear ...

An internal finance review is raising questions about Monroe County’s overtime policies after finding the county paid hundreds of thousands of dollars more in overtime than it would have under ...

You have a slacker exempt employee who just showed up three hours late, again. You dock her pay, because fair is fair. Reasonable, right? Congratulations! You just broke a federal law. If she’s a ...

Question: I’m going to hire a new employee soon. I want this person to be exempt from the normal overtime and meal and rest period rules. Can I make this person exempt by paying them a higher salary?