EMPLOYEES MAY NEED TO BE PAID FOR DOING MORE THAN THEIR 'MAIN JOB'
If the employee hasn’t started “working” yet, he or she need not be paid for that time, right?
Continue Reading...Tipping the New York Tip Credit in Employees' Favor
We’ve been discussing the new New York Hospitality Industry Wage Order. One significant difference in the new regulations is how the tip credit has been changed in employees’ favor.
Continue Reading...NYS Trying to Make the Hospitality Industry More Hospitable to Workers
While waiting on tables may seem straight forward (customer orders food, server brings food), the regulations governing compensation for that server, and others in the hospitality industry, are among the most complex. New York employers who’ve mastered the old regulations, with all their exceptions and special rules for tipped employees, will have to go back to school.
Continue Reading...800,000 Reasons to Not Do What This Restaurant Did
The U.S. Department of Labor recently offered employers a legal cautionary tale of how not to pay employees when it hit a Long Island, New York restaurant with $800,000.00 in back wages and overtime pay liability, liquidated damages, and civil fines because
Continue Reading...Class Action Lawsuit Follows New DOL Interpretation of Mortgage Loan Officer Status
We blogged in January 2011 about a 2010 Department of Labor (DOL) interpretation concluding that mortgage loan officers were not exempt employees under the FLSA’s overtime pay regulations. The Mortgage Broker’s Association (MBA) had warned at that time that this interpretation reversing the DOL’s 2006 position finding that mortgage loan officers were exempt employees would cause the sky to fall on lenders.
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