One of the highest priorities at the U.S. Labor Department is to identify situations in which workers are erroneously considered not to be employees or other covered individuals for purposes of complying with minimum-wage, overtime, and recordkeeping requirements and child-labor restrictions of the FLSA and similar federal wage laws it enforces.
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In 1938, when Congress enacted the original minimum wage and overtime laws, they excluded domestic workers.
Even as home health care for the elderly became professionalized, those women continued to be categorized as companions, not eligible for minimum wage or overtime.
The Court of Appeals in New York ruled that home health aides should receive minimum wage and overtime pay, and now the question is before the Supreme Court.
That means employers are allowed to pay these workers less than minimum wage with no overtime.
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The judge agreed that the audit associates at PwC in California are not exempt from overtime pay under the 2001 wage order.
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At that time, the judge agreed that the audit associates at PwC in California are not exempt from overtime pay under a 2001 wage order.
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It also allegedly failed to meet wage requirements and offer overtime pay.
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Under federal law, every employee in America is entitled to a minimum wage, additional compensation for overtime and certain other benefits.
Often they do that in a shadow economy -- a place where employers may offer them less than the minimum wage or make them work overtime without extra pay.
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Shaving overtime, paying less than a living wage and leaving the night staff locked in regardless of their health and well-being hardly makes for a progressive, dynamic business model.
On the issue of the janitors, it is -- if you work for an hourly wage, and you earn overtime, and you depend on that overtime to make ends meet, it is simply a fact that a reduction in overtime is a reduction in your pay.
Last December, Forever 21 settled a lawsuit brought against it and 12 subcontractors by factory workers who claimed they were paid less than minimum wage, with no benefits or overtime pay.
It also could help stem the tide of wage-and-hour cases that have seen courts award overtime to such traditionally exempt employees as stockbrokers and loan officers.
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With unemployment likely to remain high, no overtime and part-time workers bulging to an amazing 9 million number, wage inflation is a dead issue for at least a couple of years.
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