In a lengthy report entitled “Rethinking Overtime” commissioned by the National Retail Federation, Oxford Economics analyzes the likely impact on businesses of the anticipated rise in the salary required for exempt status, one of the expectations of the Department of Labor’s review of the exemption regulations. The report, available here, notes that only
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New York District Court Holds Decision to Reclassify Is Not Evidence Employee was Misclassified
By Noel P. Tripp on
Posted in Exemptions
There are many reasons an employer may decide to reclassify an employee from exempt to non-exempt: changes in the law; modified court or DOL interpretations of existing law; as a result of an internal audit; or, simply based on changes in the business needs of the company. Does that decision to reclassify create evidence that the…