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According to law firm Jones Walker LLP , Terry Gentry, an IT engineer, filed suit on behalf of himself and a putative class alleging that his employer, Hamilton-Ryker IT Solutions (HR-IT), violated the FLSA’s overtime protections by failing to pay overtime wages to its nonexempt, hourly paid employees.

It also doesn’t require overtime pay for work on Saturdays, Sundays, holidays or regular rest days, unless (of course) actual overtime is triggered when working on such days.

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Pitfall #3: Miscalculating Overtime Paying overtime correctly for tipped workers can be complex, and many employers fail to do so.

Managers then redistributed these tips to nontipped employees, including kitchen staff.; ;Failed to pay tipped employees the federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour.; ;Incorrectly paid tipped employees overtime based on the tip credit rate instead of the applicable minimum wage rate.; ;Failed to keep accurate records of employees’ hourly rates of pay and overtime wages due.; “If an employer claims the tip credit, tips may only be shared by employees who customarily receive tips as part of their wage compensation,” stated Mary O’Rourke, a Wage and Hour Division district director in Michigan.

Within “productivity,” work time and overtime are foundational metrics to track.

Percent Between Midpoints = ((Midpoint of Higher Grade - Midpoint of Lower Grade) / Midpoint of Lower Grade) x 100 Overtime Cost to Total Compensation Ratio Measures the ratio of overtime costs to total compensation expenses, indicating reliance on overtime pay.

DOL investigators discovered the employers violated the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) for years by: Willfully failing to pay employees for all hours worked, including work done during meal breaks;;Failing to incorporate all promised compensation, including nondiscretionary bonuses and shift differentials, when calculating overtime pay;;Avoiding paying overtime by incorrectly treating employees as exempt from the FLSA’s overtime requirements; and;Not keeping accurate records of hours employees worked and compensation due for those hours.; Editor’s Note: Additional Content For more information and resources related to this article, see the pages below, which offer quick access to all WorldatWork content on these topics: Employee Benefits;Employee Compensation;Total Rewards;Finance and Budgeting;

Most prominent are: ;No tax on overtime.

., failing to pay tipped employees the federal minimum wage or pocketing workers’ credit card tips); ;Don’t pay overtime (i.e., failing to pay overtime based on the regular hourly rate or failing to pay overtime that includes service charges, commissions and bonuses); At the federal level alone, in 2024, the U.S.