Which Agency Employees Can Be Exempt Employees for Overtime Pay Purposes?
In last week’s post, I mentioned the concept of exempt and nonexempt employees and provided a brief description of what makes an employee exempt from the requirement under the Fair Labor Standards Act...
View ArticleAvoiding the Payment of Overtime is About to Get Much More Expensive
In a blog post this past March about which employees must be paid overtime for working more that 40 hours in any one work week, I mentioned that President Obama had directed the U.S. Department of...
View ArticleDepartment of Labor Goes After Independent Contractors
A little over a week after issuing its Notice of Rulemaking that will result in more than doubling the minimum salary that must be paid to an employee for them to be eligible for the administrative or...
View ArticleWhat Businesses Does the Fair Labor Standards Act Cover?
My posts during the past two weeks have been about the proposed new salary standard for the administrative and executive exemptions from the overtime pay requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act...
View ArticleCan an Agent Be Paid a Fee for a Personal Lines Health Insurance Policy?
In the past couple of weeks, I have received telephone calls through the IIAG Free Legal Service Program that I run in which I have been asked the above question. My general answer is Yes, if certain...
View ArticleCan An Agent Collect a Fee For Assisting With the Purchase of Health Insurance?
In the past couple of months, the above question has been asked by more than one caller to the Free Legal Service program that I run for the Independent Insurance Agents of Georgia. Some insurance...
View ArticleThe New Overtime Rule – What You Need to Know
Last July, I wrote a post about a new rule for the payment of overtime that had recently been proposed by the U.S. Department of Labor (“USDOL”). That proposed rule was made final by the USDOL on May...
View ArticleThe New Overtime Rule – What You Can Do to Comply
My last post was about the requirements of the new rule for the payment of exempt employees. This post will focus on the options available to an employer to comply with those requirements and the...
View ArticleNew Overtime Rule – Who Is Exempt?
Judging by the reaction of the audience at a presentation on the new overtime rule I made a couple of weeks ago, that rule is going to create significant problems for independent insurance agencies. I...
View ArticlePayment of Producers Under New Overtime Rule
My last post concerned the exemptions from the overtime payment requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”) that will most likely apply to the employees of an insurance agency. While the job...
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