Compensation.BLR.com Publishes 'Top 100 Questions About New Overtime Law'; No End to the Confusion, Even the New FLSA Regulation Bedevils Employers.OLD SAYBROOK, Conn. -- Employers have been complaining about the complexity of overtime and payroll regulations since the Federal Labor Standard Act was enacted in 1938. So while businesses welcomed the FLSA FLSA Fair Labor Standards Act FLSA Fedora Legacy Security Advisory overtime changes that went into effect in August 2004, labor unions labor union: see union, labor. fretted over workers losing overtime pay. Now, more than half a year after the new law's implementation, lost overtime pay is not the big issue. Instead, many of the complaints are coming from employers -- the new regulations are still as confusing as ever! Compensation.BLR BLR Belarus BLR Business & Legal Reports BLR Boiler BLR Broad-Line Region BLR Base Lending Rate BLR Binary Language Representation BLR Bintan Lagoon Resort (Indonesia) BLR Bangalore, India - Hindustan .com, where employers go for reliable compensation data and tools, has just compiled a Special Report that answers the most common questions about the new law. "Top 100 FLSA Overtime Q&A's: Most Frequently Asked Questions about the New FLSA Overtime Regulations" is free to employers at http://www.blr.com/82008400/PRS13 The payroll questions indicate the range of practical problems that employers face as they try to determine who is eligible for overtime pay while balancing tight pay budgets. Most questions are predictable -- who is exempt from overtime pay and under what circumstances. But many queries illustrate the complexity of applying the law in today's modern workplace. Take for example Question 24: "If an employee takes more than 1 smoke break per 4 hour pay period, if is it acceptable to deduct de·duct v. de·duct·ed, de·duct·ing, de·ducts v.tr. 1. To take away (a quantity) from another; subtract. 2. To derive by deduction; deduce. v.intr. that time?" Or Question 29: "How do you calculate overtime when someone works on a piecework piecework, work for which the laborer is paid on the basis of the amount of work done. The system is best adapted to standardized operations in which quantity is preferred to quality. Its advocates maintain that it pays the worker according to his ability. basis?" Other questions deal with workers sharing jobs, or have to travel to distant work sites, and so on. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. Susan Prince, Senior Editor at Compensation.BLR.com, "It's no wonder that so many employers said in our recent survey that they've been audited by the Department of Labor for wage and hour problems -- it's still very hard to comply with this law." The "Top 100 FLSA Overtime Q & A's" -- free, and in PDF (Portable Document Format) The de facto standard for document publishing from Adobe. On the Web, there are countless brochures, data sheets, white papers and technical manuals in the PDF format. format -- can be downloaded here: http://www.blr.com/82008400/PRS13 About BLR Old Saybrook, Conn.-based BLR produces plain-English compliance and training resources for HR, compensation, safety, and environmental managers. For more information, call 800-727-5257 or visit www.BLR.com. |
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