Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)

“The following article originally appeared on the Fox Rothschild’s Wage & Hour blog, and was authored by Mark Tabakman, Partner in the Princeton, NJ office.”

When two entities are a joint employer, or could be deemed as such, they must aggregate the hours worked by employees at each facility in a given week. If

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On December 1, 2016, the salary component of the three most popular exemptions under the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act will go from $455  to $913 per week ($47,476 annually).  The immediate impact of this change is that if a company is not paying existing salaried employees at least $47,476 annually, then