June of this year we posted about the new overtime rule in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that was scheduled to take effect on December 1. The new rule would have impacted more than 4.2 million Americans by raising the exempt salary threshold to $47,476.  In a surprise announcement last Tuesday, November 22, 2016, […]

The federal government has given small business owners another reason to closely monitor and track their employees’ hours.  A new rule in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) beginning December 1, 2016 will raise the salary threshold of workers for which overtime must be paid. In 2004 the Department of Labor required businesses to pay […]