If an hourly employee works beyond 40 hours in a week, they are entitled to overtime pay. However, if that employee performs different roles at different pay rates, you may have to use a “blended rate ...

DOL uses opinion letters to respond to fact-specific employer queries about wage-hour compliance. The Obama administration had discontinued the use of the letters in 2010 in favor of more broadly ...

Calculating the correct overtime pay rate in California has long been a complicated process. The basic overtime rate is defined as one and a half times an employee’s “regular rate” of pay. This ...

In most cases, workers can easily compute their salaries and wages using simple arithmetic, based on pay rates and hours worked. However, even these simple calculations can have important regulatory ...

I have long been a fan of the fluctuating work week (FWW) method of paying overtime to non-exempt salaried employees. This computation yields a half-time calculation, i.e. a lower calculation than ...