Calculating Overtime Just Got Trickier for Some Employers

The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires that employees be paid one and one-half times their regular rate of pay for all hours worked over forty hours in a workweek. California’s Labor Code additionally requires overtime for all hours worked over eight hours in a day and on the seventh day worked in a workweek. To calculate an overtime rate, an employer must know what to include in an employee’s regular rate of pay.

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Source for News notes: Calculating Overtime Just Got Trickier for Some Employers by Laura K. Sitar, Shareholder at Wroten & Associates.

Posted in Employment on October 18, 2016