What is a lawsuit filed for overtime compensation under FLSA really about?
Simply put, it is a lawsuit where workers demand to be paid at the going rate for all the time they work. The lawsuit makes sure that companies do not overwork people. In the misclassification context, if an employer can simply give someone a fancy title, pay them a low salary, then work them 60 hours a week, the companies are incentivized to overwork the employees who are precisely the ground level workers that the laws are designed to protect. If those folks work more than 40 hours, they are entitled to be paid an overtime premium. These cases are as much about preserving a reasonable life for workers as they are about making sure that workers are paid a premium for their overtime. Q: On August 23, 2004, the DOL announced the Fair-Pay rule under the FLSA to change requirements for overtime eligibility. Could you explain the changes? A: There are a number of wording changes, but the preamble to the new regulations says that these do not change the regulations. The regulations essentia
