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Overtime cheating - it just got more expensive if you get caught
Posted by: William Amlong
February 06, 2008
Calling your secretary an "administrative" employee to cheat her out of overtime just got a lot riskier because of an opinion handed down Jan. 28 by the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit, which oversees federal trial courts in Florida, Georgia and Alabama.
Overtime law is simple. Generally, under the Fair Labor Standards Act, if someone works more than 40 hours a week, that person must be paid time-and-a-half for every hour over 40. Bona fide executive and administrative employees are exempt. And the fantasy of so many employers is that they can make non-exempt employees exempt just by labeling them...
