New overtime regulations were unveiled by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) dramatically impacting which employees can be classified as exempt or nonexempt, and therefore due overtime for any hours worked more than 40 in a workweek. Employers must comply with the changes by December 1, 2016.
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New overtime regulations were unveiled by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) dramatically impacting
which employees can be classified as exempt or nonexempt, and therefore due overtime for any hours
worked more than 40 in a workweek. Employers must comply with the changes by December 1, 2016.
Implementing the Overtime Regulations:
5 Steps to Controlling Costs
Key changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)
include:
■■ The minimum salary test for an employee to be
exempt from overtime will become $47,476.
■■ The level will increase every three
years going forward.
■■ Employers will be able to include
nondiscretionary bonuses to satisfy up to
10 percent of the new salary threshold.
■■ The rarely used “highly compensated employee”
exemption will now require pay of $134,004
and will also increase every three years.
What Is Still the Same?
Although the consequences of the changes are quite
dramatic, much of the existing regulation remains intact.
Specifically, employees above the $47,476 threshold
must still pass one of the duties tests (i.e. executive,
administrative, professional, etc.).
5 Steps to Predicting and Controlling Costs
Companies are seeking to control the costs of
implementing the revised regulations in a manner that is
consistent with their culture. Employers have numerous
options and scenarios on how to comply, each with
different costs, pros/cons, employee morale and cultural
implications that must be understood and weighed. To
this end, the following approach can be used to optimize
implementation.