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Big Changes Ahead: Minimum Salary for Exempt Employees Must Be $47,476 By December 1, 2016

On May 18, 2016 the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) released its final updated regulations governing overtime exemptions.  The DOL’s Wage and Hour Fact Sheet detailing the changes can be found here. Although it does not go as far as the proposed rules, the new regulations dramatically expand the number of workers eligible for […]

Deadline Looming for Employers to Elect “Piece-Rate Back Pay” Safe Harbor under AB 1513

It’s decision-making time under AB 1513 for employers of piece-rate workers in California.  More specifically, if you employ piece-rate workers in California, you must give notice to the state’s Department of Industrial Relations by July 1, 2016 if you want to avail yourself of the safe harbor under the statute and secure the complete affirmative […]