All employees are one of two types: exempt and non-exempt. As an employer or aspiring business owner, you need to know the difference between exempt vs. non-exempt employees. This knowledge can help ...

Explore how nonprofit organizations gain federal tax-exempt status under IRS 501(c) and discover the conditions they must ...

As employers try to figure out how to cope with the coming increase in the minimum salary for the executive, administrative and professional employees, some find themselves with job classifications ...

Whether you’re looking to hire someone or are out searching for a new job, understanding the difference between exempt vs non-exempt employees is critical. Employers need to understand what’s best for ...

Non-exempt employees are hourly workers guaranteed a minimum wage and overtime pay of at least 1.5 times their normal, hourly rate for any hours worked over 40 per week by the FLSA. The Fair Labor ...

Levi Strauss is in the news this week after agreeing to pay more than $1 million in back wages to a group of employees it misclassified as exempt from overtime compensation. My last post discussed the ...

We discuss the misclassification of non-exempt employees regularly here on the blog and in our presentations at conferences and webinars, but a reader of the blog wrote me before the holiday weekend ...

Small businesses are governed by the same federal and state regulations that almost all other larger businesses are subjected to. There are special sets of challenges for small businesses, however, ...

I am a salaried employee, and exempt from overtime pay. This makes sense for my position under the "computer employee" exemption. A few times a year, my company also hosts trade shows and conventions.