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

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

Most prominent are: ;No tax on overtime.

Save Reuse Permission After eight years of litigation , a federal district court in California last week found that a Grubhub delivery driver was an employee — not an independent contractor as the company claimed — for minimum wage and overtime claims.

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., 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.

., vacation, personal leave, sick leave);; 🗹 Reasons for PTO not being approved;; 🗹 Employee headcount;; 🗹 Overtime hours worked; Qualitative Data Collection: 🗹 Reasons for not taking leave (e.g., workload, lack of coverage, manager disapproval, accruing for a later purpose);; 🗹 Employee understanding of PTO policies;; 🗹 Employee perceptions of corporate/department culture on taking time off;; 🗹 Employee feedback on improving PTO usage;; 🗹 Manager’s challenges in approving PTO requests (e.g., late requests, holiday weeks, request/approval system, staffing issues);; 🗹 Impact on team/department when employees are absent (high, low, unacceptable, etc.).;; 🗹 Manager feedback on improving PTO usage;; 🗹 Focus group sentiments regarding the effectiveness of PTO policies and practices that impact usage (positive or negative); Calculations 🗹 Calculate the percentage change in requests year-over-year and month-over-month. ;; ;Example formula: [(requests in current year – requests

.; ;No tax on overtime hours.

MacDonald noted that some of the labor-related areas pending right now are in litigation. 2024 Overtime Rule … R.I.P.

As acting secretary of labor, Micone will likely begin taking steps to repeal several Biden-era rules, including regulations on overtime pay (see below) and determining when workers can betreated as independent contractorsrather than employees.