Brown & Connery LLP partner Louis R. Lessig joins HR Break Room hosts Caleb Masters and AJ Griffin at the SHRM 2019 Conference and Exposition to review the latest developments in the proposed FLSA rule.
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Louis R. Lessig, Brown & Connery, LLP partner
On March 7, the U.S. Department of Labor proposed a rule that boosts the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) salary threshold at which workers are eligible to receive overtime, making a major change to employee exemption criteria.
If finalized, the rule will extend overtime protections to more than a million currently exempt workers making less than $35,308 per year. It also would represent financial and operational challenges for employers, who will have to evaluate how their employees are scheduled and paid, in order to mitigate labor costs and exposure under the FLSA.
In this episode of HR Break Room, recorded at the Society for Human Resource Management 2019 Conference & Exposition, Louis R. Lessig joins hosts Caleb Masters and AJ Griffin to:
To learn more about steps you can take now, download our white paper, Don’t Underestimate Overtime Changes: A Look Into Overtime Under the FLSA and How Businesses Can Prepare.
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