What happens when a company classifies its employees as salaried, exempt from overtime but then deducts or docks from the employees’ pay for things like sickness, disability, or personal leave? Can this deduction change an exempt employee to a non-exempt employee? The short answer is “yes.” The rule of thumb…
Recently, a United States federal district court granted employees’ request for conditional certification in an overtime case filed by assistant store managers (“ASM”). The ASM filed an overtime collective action alleging that Burlington Coat Factory failed to pay them overtime wages for the hours they worked over 40 in a…
The First Republic Bank is paying over $1 million in overtime pay to 392 bank employees who were wrongly classified as exempt from overtime. The employees are a mix of bank administrative and professional employees whose job duties do not meet the Fair Labor Standards Act’s (“FLSA”) exemptions from overtime.…