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Yesterday, we gave you the background on a recent court case involving the classification of social workers as exempt. Today, the court’s rationale for concluding that the workers should have been getting overtime pay.
It’s important to be sure you properly classify jobs as exempt if you’re asserting an exemption to the overtime pay requirements of the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). That message was reinforced by a recent decision of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals (which includes California) in which the court concluded that state social […]