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Hargrove v. Sleepy's Inc., No. A-7012, 2015 N.J. LEXIS 38 (N.J. Jan. 14, 2015). Resolving a question of state law certified to the court by the US Court of Appeals [...]

The IRS has released a 2018 version of Publication 1494, the tables used for calculating the amount of salary, wages, and other income that is exempt from a federal tax [...]

The final regulations increasing the salary requirements for the white-collar overtime exemptions are technically still on the books--although they are on hold until a court battle over their validity is [...]

In a series of webinars, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) provided answers to some questions about the new white-collar overtime exemption regulations. In the July 7, [...]

In a series of webinars, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) provided answers to some questions about the new white-collar overtime exemption regulations. In this and upcoming [...]

As we go to press, the Department of Labor (DOL) has issued the much-anticipated final regulations updating the salary level requirements for the white-collar exemptions from the overtime requirements of [...]

All indications are that the proposed white-collar exemption regulations will be finalized later this spring or in early summer and will take effect in early fall. But that doesn't mean [...]

The General Services Administration (GSA) recently set the per diem rates for business travel within the continental United States (the CONUS rates) on or after October 1, 2015. And the [...]

Despite repeated calls from constituents and members of Congress for an extension, the period for public comments on the proposed white-collar exemption regulations is officially closed. With 289,891 comments on [...]

According to President Obama, the United States is the only advanced country on Earth that doesn't guarantee paid sick leave or paid maternity leave to our workers. And he would [...]

The FCC gets $356.7 million under a bipartisan omnibus appropriations bill (HR 244) signed into law May 5 that funds federal government operations through the end of fiscal year 2017, [...]

NJ mandates paid sick leave. The New Jersey legislature has approved legislation that will require employers to provide employees with up to 40 hours of paid sick leave each year. [...]

In a series of webinars, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) provided answers to some questions about the new white-collar overtime exemption regulations. In previous issues, Payroll [...]

In a series of webinars, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) provided answers to some questions about the new white-collar overtime exemption regulations. In previous issues of [...]

In response to an inquiry from the editors of Payroll Manager's Letter, the Department of Labor (DOL) has clarified how the December 1, 2016, effective date applies to the highly [...]

Longstanding regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) have permitted employers to count nondiscretionary incentive compensation toward the required salary test for highly compensated employees. Under the new white-collar [...]

Not surprisingly, the proposed changes to white-collar overtime exemptions under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) have provoked significant controversy (see 'Proposed Overtime Regulations Come Under Fire in Congress' below). [...]

The Department of Labor (DOL) has released proposed regulations that would significantly increase the salary thresholds for the so-called white-collar exemptions from the minimum wage and overtime requirements of the [...]

Unfortunately, slip-ups happen. Perhaps you inadvertently failed to cut a terminated employee's final paycheck on time. Or you mistakenly shortchanged an employee when calculating his or her overtime. In some [...]

You receive plenty of advice--including from this newsletter--on how to complete a Form W-2, Wage and Tax Statement. You're up to speed on what must appear on the form, where [...]

A little-known--and, at least until recently, little-used--provision in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) permits the Department of Labor to seek a court order blocking the interstate shipment of goods [...]

Let's face it. Mistakes happen. You double- and triple-checked the W-2 forms you issued for 2014. But now you've discovered that a dozen or more of those forms are incorrect. [...]

NY beefs up payroll card rules. Starting March 7, 2017, new regulations issued by the New York State Department of Labor impose stringent requirements on all employers that pay employees [...]

A new IRS Chief Counsel Advice Memorandum makes it clear that 'short-week benefits' cannot be excluded from wages for Social Security and Medicare (FICA) tax purposes [CCA 201634023, 8/9/2016]. The [...]

California Governor Edmund G. Brown has signed what's touted to be the toughest equal pay law in the nation. Currently, California law prohibits employers from paying a woman less than [...]

On the first Sunday in November, those areas of the country on Daylight Saving Time (DST) return to Standard Time at 2:00 a.m. For 2015, the annual 'fall back' occurs [...]

WHD says WOW. The Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) web page features a new application called Workers Owed Wages, or WOW. The WOW app permits workers to [...]

In a case that made the national news, a manager at a fast-food restaurant claimed she was fired from her job because she refused to pay back money that was [...]

Wage-hour enforcement stats. In Fiscal Year 2014, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division recovered more than $240 million in back wages for more than 270,000 workers--an average of [...]

Philadelphia has joined the growing list of cities that have passed legislation requiring employers to provide paid sick leave for employees. On February 12, 2015, the Philadelphia City Council passed [...]