Employment Law — Overtime
The Fair Labor Standards Act requires that employers pay their employees time and one-half their regular rate of pay for all hours worked in excess of 40 in a workweek. In other words, employees are generally entitled to at least 50 percent greater pay for all hours worked per week after 40. There are a number […]
Employment Law – Workplace Discrimination
On Tuesday, April 19, 2016, I gave a one-hour presentation to Professor Tammy Broaddus’ Introduction to Entrepreneurship class at UMKC’s Bloch School of Management. A surprising number of questions from the audience centered around employment law. For that reason, I’m dedicating my firm’s first blog post to that topic. Employers cannot discriminate against a person on the basis […]