Un-Answered Questions { Labor Management }

Does the FLSA allow for a flexible schedule for overtime eligible employees? Can employers still allow employees to work from home or have flexible schedules?

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What are the costs and benefits of the Final Rule?

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What are the white collar exemptions to the FLSA?

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Why is the Department setting the standard salary level at the 40th percentile of weekly earnings for full-time salaried workers in the lowest wage Census Region and not on national data as proposed?

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How will the Department automatically update the standard salary level and HCE total annual compensation requirement?

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How did the Department determine the new total annual compensation requirement for highly compensated employees (HCEs)?

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How did the Department determine which Census Region is the lowest wage Census Region?

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Explain "overtime"?

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Will newly overtime-eligible employees have to record their hours on a daily basis or "punch a time clock"?

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What's the reason of 2004 standard salary level need to be increased?

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If the effective date is December 1st, what does this mean for businesses where the pay period begins on Monday the 28th? How do they manage this?

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Why didn't the Department set the salary threshold at a lower amount?

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Won't this rule be difficult for employers because they will have to track workers' hours?

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May employers make a catch-up payment in the event that an employee doesn't receive enough in nondiscretionary bonuses and incentive payments (including commissions) in a given quarter to remain exempt?

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Is there an exemption for schools and institutions of higher education from either the FLSA or the Department's overtime regulations governing white collar workers?

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