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Each year, California’s minimum wage rises, but along with hourly workers’ wages increasing, so too does the salary threshold for employees to be exempt from overtime. For an employee to be exempt ...

For employers, this decision provides a clearer roadmap for defending against overtime claims from high-earning employees.

As employers prepare to celebrate the holiday season with their teams, wise HR professionals will consider whether their non-exempt employees must be paid for their time at a holiday party. In general ...

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?

What does it mean to be tax-exempt? Tax-exempt means not being required to pay taxes on certain types of income. Find out what type of income is included.

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Being an exempt employee comes with certain benefits, as well as a few sometimes unappealing conditions. “Exempt,” in the eyes of the U.S. Department of Labor, is a description for an employee who’s ...

"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 ...

A&P employees only earn comp time when they work on a holiday or skeleton crew day, in which case they are entitled to earn comp time at a 1:1 rate. Additionally, A&P employees can earn comp time by ...