Employees across Los Angeles, Pasadena, San Francisco, and Oakland are celebrating new minimum wage standards. The numbers can vary slightly from business to business based on company size and industry, but there remains an upward trend in wages. RTR Consulting informs businesses of the change and the new numbers you need to know. A Look… Read more »
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Employment Law Changes for 2018 – Part Two
Employers, have you examined your employment processes for 2018 yet? The new year will be here before you know it, and with that comes important updates you must be aware of! This is part 2 in our three-part series on Employment Law Changes for 2018. We at RTR Consulting want to make sure… Read more »
New Overtime Pay Rules
The Department announced a Final Rule focused primarily on updating the salary and compensation levels needed for Executive, Administrative and Professional workers to be exempt. For more information, see http://www.dol.gov/whd/overtime/final2016/. The primary change raises the salary test to a weekly salary of $913.00 or an annual salary of $47,476. The salary test in CA currently… Read more »
EXEMPT or NON-EXEMPT
The Department of Labor is increasing its audit to ensure employers are not misclassifying employees exempt. In addition, they are changing the rules to make more positions classified as non-exempt. Employers should audit their employee classifications to ensure they do not have misclassified employees. Conducting job analysis on for all positions is the best way… Read more »
COMMON WAGE AND HOUR MISTAKES
Employers need to audit there wage and hour practices to ensure that they are not making mistakes that would cause them to violate Employment Law. MISCLASSIFYING NON-EXEMPT EMPLOYEES AS EXEMPT FROM FSLA. Lucrative attorneys’ fees continue to motivate lawyers to file individual and class actions on behalf of improperly classified employees. Two tests to qualify… Read more »
Minimum Wages goes up!
2016 Employees earn more Minimum Wage—Effective Jan. 1, 2016, is raised to $10.00 per hour in California. To be exempt from FSLA employees must be paid a weekly salary that is two times more than minimum wage. Example: The minimum wage is $10.00 and the weekly salary must be $20.00 or more. Salary of $800.00… Read more »
Wal Mart Loses Minimum Wage Case
Employers using a piece rate for paying employees, expose themselves to paid rest breaks, as well as layovers. The employee needs to be paid for all hours worked! http://bit.ly/1dW7oYg
Wage and Hour Mistakes!
Piece rates, uniforms, interns, are an easy way for employers to violate wage and hour laws! http://bit.ly/1BX4KXR