Posts in Professional Exemption.
Management should take care not to focus so much upon FLSA-related "salary basis" developments that it fails to note changes in salary thresholds required under analogous state-law exemptions.
Administrative Exemption, Executive Exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, Professional Exemption, Salary BasisTags: $455, $913, exempt employees, exemption changes, exemption regulations, minimum salary level, salary level, salary threshold, salary-test increase U.S. Labor Secretary candidate Alexander Acosta's March 22 confirmation hearing might have provided insight into some potential Labor Department actions affecting the FLSA and analogous federal laws.
Administrative Exemption, Compliance, Computer Employees, Executive Exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, Final Regulations, Professional Exemption, Salary BasisTags: $455, $47476, $913, 13(a)(1), Administrator Interpretations, Compliance, FLSA interpretations, FLSA opinions, opinion letters, salary basis, salary level, salary test, salary threshold, salary-test increase, white-collar exemptions Jan. 4, 2017 by The Editor
Federal District Judge Amos L. Mazzant has denied the U.S. Department of Labor's request to halt proceedings in his court while it appeals the preliminary injunction he granted preventing salary-related changes in the FLSA's "white collar" exemption requirements from taking effect.
Administrative Exemption, Computer Employees, Executive Exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, Professional Exemption, Salary BasisTags: $913, administrative exemption, computer employee exemption, computer professional, executive exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, FLSA exemptions, minimum salary level, professional exemption, salary level, salary test, salary threshold, salary-test increase, white-collar exemptions The U.S. Department of Labor has appealed last week's court order that prevented the salary-related changes in the FLSA's "white collar" exemptions from taking effect today.
Administrative Exemption, Computer Employees, Executive Exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, Final Regulations, Professional Exemption, Salary BasisTags: $913, administrative exemption, computer professional, executive exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, professional exemption, salary level, salary test, salary threshold, salary-test increase, USDOL Appeal, white-collar exemptions Care and reflection are essential in deciding what to do in light of yesterday's ruling halting the salary-related "white collar" exemption changes.
Administrative Exemption, Computer Employees, Executive Exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, Final Regulations, Professional ExemptionTags: $134,004, $913, administrative exemption, computer professional, executive exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, professional exemption, salary basis, salary level, salary test, salary threshold, salary-test increase, white-collar exemptions Donald Trump's election does not mean that employers may now ignore the coming changes in the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's "white collar" definitions.
Administrative Exemption, Computer Employees, Executive Exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, Final Regulations, Professional Exemption, Salary BasisTags: $134,004, $913, exempt employees, exemption changes, minimum salary level, salary basis, salary test, salary threshold, salary-test increase, white-collar exemptions Some might find U.S. Labor Department "Fact Sheets" to be useful summaries or overviews in evaluating exemption status, but these materials are not themselves the definitions of exempt status under the FLSA's Section 13(a)(1).
Administrative Exemption, Computer Employees, Executive Exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, Outside Salesman Exemption, Professional ExemptionTags: "Fact Sheets", "highly compensated" exemption, 13(a)(1), administrative exemption, computer professional, executive exemption, exempt employees, Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA exemptions, outside salesman exemption, professional exemption Employers who are currently relying upon a "highly compensated" version of the FLSA's white-collar exemptions should carefully consider the 2016/2017 transitional implications of the higher "total annual compensation" dollar amount that goes into effect on December 1.
Administrative Exemption, Executive Exemption, Final Regulations, Professional Exemption, Salary BasisTags: "highly compensated" exemption, $100,000, $134,004, exempt employees, exempt status, exemption changes, Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA, FLSA exempt status, FLSA exemptions, minimum salary level, salary basis, salary level, salary test, salary threshold, salary-test increase, Section 13(a)(1), white-collar exemptions Overlooking or permitting substandard work can make it harder to defend against claims that an employee should not have been treated as exempt.
Administrative Exemption, Executive Exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, Outside Salesman Exemption, Professional ExemptionTags: exempt employees, exempt status, exemption burden of proof, Exemptions And Exceptions, FLSA exempt status, FLSA exemptions, overtime exemptions, wage-hour exemptions, white-collar exemptions With only about 60 days to go, we continue to urge employers to move forward with their final preparations for the increased dollar-amount thresholds under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act's so-called "white collar" exemptions.
Administrative Exemption, Computer Employees, Executive Exemption, Exemptions And Exceptions, Final Regulations, Professional Exemption, Salary BasisTags: $134004, $47476, $913, 13(a)(1), administrative exemption, computer employee exemption, Executive Compensation, exemption changes, Exemptions And Exceptions, Fair Labor Standards Act, FLSA exemptions, FLSA,Fair Labor Standards Act, timekeeping-by-exception,exceptions reporting, white-collar exemptions,, keep calm, professional exemption, salary basis, salary level, salary test, salary threshold, salary-test increase