Business
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November | 2022
Wage-and-hour law has long
bedeviled retailers, and, increasingly,
federal and state prosecutors are
fi nding that willful violations of the
overtime regulations of the Fair Labor
Standards Act (FLSA) are criminal
acts for which business owners are
liable. e Biden administration
is expected to reduce the number
of employees exempt from overtime
by raising the required salary
threshold and tightening the
workplace duties tests.
So how do you determine who is
exempt from overtime rules? How
Overtime
Penalties
Retailers can incur costly
penalties for violating the
overtime regulations of
the Fair Labor Standards
Act (FLSA). Here's what
you need to know
about wage-and-hour
regulations, to keep
your business safe
from prosecution.
By Phillip M. Perry
Avoiding
do you
calculate
time-and-
a-half when
employees
work through
their lunch hours
and fail to record
their hours? And how
about remote workers?
e wrong actions can spark
costly penalties. "Employers
who fail to correctly pay overtime
must make up back wages plus
'liquidated damages' equal to an
