Federal Overtime Regulations Overhauled!!
Diane Dennis Enterprises © 2004

The United States Department of Labor (USDOL) has recently overhauled federal overtime regulations, and they've put together a website referred to as the FairPay Website, designed to help employers understand the Department's new FairPay rules that serve to strengthen overtime protections.

The new FairPay rules are designed to
strengthen overtime rights for 6.7 million American workers.
The effective date of the new regulations is August 23, 2004.

The USDOL website has many seminars available for viewing online, designed to help employers learn more about the new "white collar" regulations.

They also have a PowerPoint presentation that you can download and customize to your business and use for your own training event(s)! Click on the link above and when you get there look for the link labeled "Seminar Download" in the right-hand column.

Now of course, as is the case with just about any regulation, there are exemptions. If your employees qualify for the exemption(s) then by all means take those exemptions, but watch out for some heavy consequences if you take an exemption that your employees are not qualified for.

While this article cannot be taken as legal advice, it can be used as a good starting point in determining whether or not your employees qualify for any overtime exemptions or not.

The rules for "blue-collar" workers are fairly simple so we'll get that out of the way first.... (Continued...)