How Can Employers Correctly Track Paid Hours for Hourly Employees?
Employees that work from home on an hourly basis need an ability to clock in and out for their scheduled hours and an ability to report the time that they worked in an unscheduled time. For example, if the employer was not expecting the employee to work at 10 pm, and yet they did, the…
Listen NowHow Do You Determine Whether an Employee Qualifies for Exemption?
Today’s episode summarizes all we have discussed regarding the FLSA exemption and provides an assessment that we recommend you perform with every single one of your employees. Even if the information you write down is not entirely accurate, simply having this information on paper for each of your employees makes a huge difference whenever a…
Listen NowHow Do You Qualify for the Professional Employee Exemption?
In Part 2 of our series on understanding FLSA exemptions, we went over the qualifications for the administrative employee exemption. In Part 3, we will cover the professional exemption. There are two general types of exempt professional employees: learned professionals and creative professionals. To qualify for the learned professional employee exemption, all of the following…
Listen NowHow Do You Qualify for the Administrative Employee Exemption?
In Part 1 of our series on understanding FLSA exemptions, we went over what an exempt employee is, what you can and cannot do to their pay, and why you may want to have an exempt employee. In Part 2, we are deep-diving into the administrative exemption. To qualify for the administrative employee exemption,…
Listen NowHow Can You Tell Whether a Worker is an Employee or an Independent Contractor?
In Part 2 of this six-part series, we go into further discussion on employee classification with regards to independent contractors vs employees. We will start by covering the other two other tests which the NLRA uses to determine the employer-worker relationship: The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Economic Realities Test and the Discrimination Statutes Test.…
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