Ouch! Company To Pay $30K Back Pay To Workers

This was a headline on today's KCCI website. You'd hate that to be about your company, wouldn't you!?

The Department of Labor said that the company paid nonexempt (hourly) employees their normal rate for travel time. When employees are travelling to and from jobs or any other company directed activity, that time is compensable. Whenever compensable time exceeds forty hours per week it must be paid at the overtime rate of 1½ times their regular pay.

Time that doesn't count toward the forty hours and doesn't have to be paid at 1½ times pay includes vacation, PTO, sick, and other paid time that isn't actually worked.

Overtime pay is an area that is easy to get stung. The rules are complicated. If you're not sure how time should be paid, your best bet is to call the Department of Labor and ask them. Or, if that makes you nervous, call us (you knew that was coming, now didn't you?).

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