Lori Brown is President and Chief Operating Officer of ComplianceHR, a web-based platform that helps companies make critical employment decisions, such as who can be retained as an independent contractor and which employees need to be paid overtime. She has more than two decades of experience as an employment litigator and in counseling organizations on employment law compliance strategies. Ms. Brown can be reached at 646.490.3593 or [email protected].
The new overtime rules were meant to simplify the longstanding exempt/nonexempt payroll construct of the Fair Labor Standards Act. But are they simple? Not so much. With the December 1 deadline approaching, U.S. employers are on the clock to comply and successfully balance the sometimes competing interests of profit, people and process.
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