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Food Distributor To Pay $1.5 Million In Back FLSA Overtime

By jessica Mar 31, 2008 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 19, 2015

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has announced a settlement with McLane Co., Inc., under which the Texas-based food and grocery distributor will pay $1,559,316 in back wages to 570 employees. A DOL investigation found that the company misclassified employees as exempt and thus didn’t pay overtime wages. McLane erroneously regarded retail merchandising specialists as […]

Proposed Legislation Would Give Small Employers Scheduling Flexibility

By jessica Mar 31, 2008 HR Management & Compliance

Updated: May 19, 2015

Small employers and their employees would be given new flexibility in work scheduling under a new measure introduced in the California Assembly. A.B. 2127 would allow employers with 25 or fewer employees to approve an employee’s written request to work up to 10-hour days within a 40-hour workweek without paying daily overtime. Under current law, […]