Simply put, mandatory overtime is when employers can make workers put in extra hours. There's no federal penalty as long as employees receive overtime pay.
Getting to the bottom of why employees—both male and female—make such assumptions is a tricky mix of history and gender inequality in the culture at large.
Are you fully compliant with the new overtime rules that went into effect Jan. 1? They raised the overtime salary threshold to $35,568.
That means exempt employees...
Balancing the religious rights of employees – or the absence of one – against an employer’s needs can be tricky. Here are some legal points to consider.
Employees don’t know pay periods; they know they get paid every two weeks. But there is a difference between paying biweekly, or 26 times a year, and semimonthly, or...
Employers must know whether fair workweek, right to request, and ‘clopening’ laws apply to their operations so they can adjust scheduling and labor costs.
While many are experiencing difficulty filling jobs, one segment of the population continuously posts an unemployment rate around 24% —military spouses.
