The U.S. Department of Labor recently issued its Final Rule regarding new salary thresholds that will apply to certain exempt white-collar employees starting January 1, 2020. Current thresholds were last updated in 2004, and the new regulations more closely reflect growth in employee earnings, including increasing minimum wage requirements.
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An employee requests the use of sick leave, vacation, or PTO to care for his ill mother. Your first instinct (and the 100% correct one) is to set that FMLA process in motion. But what if your employee wants to “save up” FMLA for scheduled surgery later in the year, or the expected birth of a child in a couple of months? What do you do if your employee says, “thanks, but no thanks” to FMLA?
On Thursday March 7, 2019, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced the proposal of a new overtime rule. According to the DOL press release, this rule would now make over 1 million American workers eligible for overtime. The new proposal would raise the salary threshold starting on January 1, 2020 to $679 per week, or roughly $35,308 annually. Currently, the salary threshold is at $455 per week or roughly $23,660 annually. The current salary threshold has been in place since 2004.