This week's Compensation Daily Advisor covers wage and hour blunders, bonuses, and what we can learn from Walt Disney and Mary Poppins.
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Wage and hour should be simple, but it’s not—expensive judgments and settlements are common, but they shouldn’t be that hard to avoid. Here are two cases that will help you avoid the expense and hassle of a wage/hour debacle.
Drywaller Plastered with $600,000 Wage/Hour Judgment
Yesterday’s Advisor presented two instructive wage and hour cases; today, a drywall company, that, in addition to a 600,000 fine, will give public presentations about the “scourge of misclassification.”
Danger Zone—Discretionary and Nondiscretionary Bonuses
Bonuses—and their impact on overtime calculations—are a focus of wage and hour enforcement. Many organizations fail to make their bonus-based overtime recalculations correctly, and that gets expensive when a large number of employees are involved.
Business Lessons from Walt Disney and Mary Poppins
Last night, my wife encouraged me to watch the movie Saving Mr. Banks, and I’m glad she did. The movie, which stars Emma Thompson and Tom Hanks, tells the story of Walt Disney’s dogged quest to obtain the rights to make a movie based on P.L. Travers’ Mary Poppins.