Overtime Law

Just because you receive commissions doesn’t necessarily mean that you don’t qualify for overtime. The FLSA has carved out an exemption to overtime pay for people who receive commissions as a part of their salaries, but it is a very narrow exception. It is possible that people working in malls all across Georgia should be talking…

Atlanta is replete with people who work in the field of home health care. Home health care workers have a special set of regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act. For instance, a home health care worker may or may not be entitled to overtime pay, depending on the circumstances of employment. First, the definition. A…

Most salaried employees don’t get overtime pay. But is the reverse true-does an employer have to pay full salary if the employee isn’t at work? Some deductions from pay will be proper, but some may cause an employee to lose that exempt status and qualify for overtime. Allowable deductions to your salary, according to a July…

Nobody may work harder, and nobody may have more job satisfaction, than a nurse. But with all of those hours put in, do nurses generally qualify for overtime pay, or are they exempted under the FLSA? The answer to that question may depend on what kind of nurse you are, what your duties are, what…

Are reporters entitled to overtime pay? Will they write about it more if they are? Even with the well- documented decline of print media, there are certainly enough reporters left on the job for this to be an ongoing issue. And reporters facing layoffs will certainly have any number of questions that could be directed to…

In order to know if the time you spend at work might be classified as overtime by the FLSA, you have to know how work time itself is defined. The FLSA language defining what constitutes work itself is vague enough, though, that each situation probably has to be figured out on a case-by-case basis. For…

Ever make a work- related call or send an email from your Smartphone when you weren’t actually “on the clock”? Most people seem to be doing that these days, especially in busy Atlanta. You may very well be entitled to overtime pay for those activities, under some circumstances, as a new term has just leaped…

Information technology workers are notoriously overworked. They put in long hours, field endless emergency calls in and out of regular hours, get no credit when things go well and take the blame when anything goes wrong. Moderns cities like Atlanta have more than their share of IT workers. But because of an often- misunderstood FLSA…

One side issue that often arises in talking about overtime is travel time. The FLSA has some guidelines on when an employee’s time spent travelling is compensable. When is it considered to be overtime, and when it is travelling from Atlanta to Marietta considered to be all in a days’ work? For the most part,…