Wage & Salary

Labor Department’s Proposed Overtime Rule Could Raise Salary Floor to $55k: Here Are 8 Ways Employers Can Prepare Now

by Fisher Phillips in Human Resources, Legal. Posted September 21, 2023

Employers may need to adjust their pay practices now that the Labor Department has issued its long-anticipated proposal to raise the salary threshold for exempt employees – a change that could make more of your employees eligible for overtime premiums. The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced today that it intends to significantly raise the ...

New Payday Options for Making Ends Meet

by NY Times in Human Resources. Posted July 6, 2016

by Stacy Cowley For decades, most American companies have paid their workers once every week or two, minimizing the administrative costs of frequent paydays and maximizing the interest the companies earn by keeping the money in the bank. And for equally long, workers have complained about the unfairness of waiting for their paychecks. But now, ...

Minimum Wage Raise in California

by Nation's Restaurant News in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Lodging. Posted April 1, 2016

It’s official: California goes for $15 minimum wage raise Some may say the minimum wage raise is inevitable. Of course there are staunch opinions on both sides raising very challenging issues. “Gov. Jerry Brown [of California] announced a landmark deal between lawmakers and union leaders that would increase the state’s minimum wage to $15 an ...

Wage and Hour Woes

by Fisher Phillips in Human Resources. Posted March 31, 2016

Wage and hour woes in the hospitality industry Andria Ryan of Fisher & Phillips provides an in-depth look at the wage and hour woes including penalities and areas known for violations. Are you prepared for an unannounced visit from the DOL? There are a number of areas that are of particular concern regarding the hospitality ...

Hospitality Industry Remains in the Cross Hairs of Department of Labor Following Wage Violation Study

by Andrea Kirshenbaum in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Legal, Lodging. Posted December 26, 2014

A December 2014 study of the effects of minimum wage violations commissioned by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) found associated violations to be “concentrated in the leisure and hospitality industry” and “most prevalent in the service occupations.” The study analyzed the financial and economic impact of minimum wage violations in California and New York on such areas ...

Wage/Hour Law Compliance for International Business Travelers and Guest Workers

by Don Dowling in Human Resources, Travel. Posted June 30, 2014

Most every country imposes wage/hour laws that regulate minimum wages and overtime pay as well as (in most countries) holiday pay, vacation pay, rest breaks and total hours worked. Usually these wage/hour laws reach not only locally hired staff but also inbound expatriates whose places of employment have become the host country. But the analysis ...

Increases to Minimum Wage by West Coast States Are On the Up and Up

by Joy Ellis in Food & Beverage, Human Resources, Lodging. Posted November 27, 2013

As fast food workers across the country stage walkouts in a push for a $15 hourly wage and the Obama administration renews its call to boost the federal minimum wage, states on the left coast have already embraced employee-friendly increases. Oregon, the state with the second-highest minimum wage in the country, announced last week that ...