Reports that state and local governments may have to pay certain middle-management personnel overtime if they do not meet the exemption test as management employees under the Fair Labor Standards Act. Use of the salary test issue to battalion chief and assistant chief ranks in the United States...
An employee who meets the salary level tests and also the salary basis tests is exempt only if s/he also performs exempt job duties. These FLSA exemptions are limited to employees who perform relatively high-level work. Whether the duties of a particular job qualify as exempt depends on what...
ve written about previously, an employee is entitled to overtime payunlessthe employee is meeting all of the Fair Labor Standard Act’s (FLSA) requirements. First, does the employee meet thesalary thresholdunder the FLSA by making at least $455 a week in salary (called the “salary test”...
Salary level test. Employees who are paid less than $23,600 per year ($455 per week) are nonexempt. (Employees who earn more than $100,000 per year are almost certainly exempt.) Salary basis test. Generally, an employee is paid on a salary basis if s/he has a "guaranteed minimum"...
Minimum salary threshold increases These thresholds are used in part to determine if an employee is eligible for overtime (non-exempt) or not (exempt). Salary level is just one of three tests in determining exemption, but is the key threshold changing. ...
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In addition to the salary, half the regular rate, or $5.50 is due for each of the 10 overtime hours, for a total of $605 for the week. If the employee works 60 hours, the regular rate is $9.17 ($550 divided by 60 hours). In that case, an additional $4.58 is due for each ...
Reports on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling invalidating Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) salary test regulations as applied to the public sector. Department of Labor regulations as the target of the decision; Service Employees International Union v. County of San Diego as title of the...
City Official Calls for FLSA Salary Test FixCouncilmember Linda Horowitz of Vancouver, Wash., representing NLC, urged the House Subcommittee on Labor Standards to enact legislation amending the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in order to stop "a loss of partnership, a loss of dollars and to ...
Municipalities Win Appeal over FLSA Salary TestIn a stunning victory for municipalities, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals held that FLSA...By TabinBarrie