When an employer permits its employees to participate in a bonus program offered by the employer’s client, based on the work performed for that client, those bonuses do not always qualify as “remuneration for employment” that must be included in the employee’s “regular rate” for purposes of calculating overtime pay due under the Fair Labor

David G. Islinger
David G. Islinger is a principal in the Berkeley Heights, New Jersey, office of Jackson Lewis P.C. He joined Jackson Lewis in 1995.
David devotes his practice primarily to traditional labor law, training and counseling matters. David has extensive experience representing employers in representation cases and unfair labor practice proceedings before the National Labor Relations Board. David also has represented employers in numerous grievance and arbitration proceedings involving issues surrounding contract interpretation, wage issues and discipline and discharge. Further, David has represented employers before federal and state government employment agencies, including the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights, the Pennsylvania Human Relations Commission, the U.S. Department of Labor and the New Jersey Department of Labor.
New Jersey Becomes Latest State to Enact a $15 Minimum Wage Law
With its governor’s signature yesterday, New Jersey became the latest – and the third largest – state to pass a $15.00 per hour minimum wage bill. The only states with larger populations than New Jersey passing such $15 minimum wage bills are California and New York, which enacted similar laws in 2016 and 2017, respectively.…