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Interpreting new federal OT regs challenges businesses.

Publication: Mississippi Business Journal
Publication Date: 27-SEP-04
Format: Online - approximately 737 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Interpreting new federal OT regs challenges businesses.(overtime regulations)

Article Excerpt
"Good news! Our jobs interpreting the new rule to figure out who doesn't get overtime pay entitles us to overtime pay!" said one desk worker to another in a Cagle Cartoon.

For human resource managers, this humorous example of interpreting the new federal overtime regulations that went into effect August 23 is not very funny. Recently promulgated by the Bush Administration, the U.S. Department of Labor's (DOL) "white-collar regulations," which could affect the overtime eligibility of 6.7 million employees, call for sweeping changes in the determination of overtime pay for "exempt" employees.

"There's still confusion over how to determine what a supervisor's primary duty is since there's no percentage...

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