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

Question: I heard the Department of Labor changed the salary threshold for employees who are exempt from overtime pay. Does this mean some of my California employees are now exempt from overtime pay ...

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 ...

Tech employers have a wide range of workers, which increases the risk of misclassifying employees as exempt from overtime pay. Since violations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) can result in ...

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?

An analysis of the permissible exemptions to minimum wage and overtime requirements under California law, as applied to private, non-unionized employers, including the executive, administrative, ...

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 ...