Your Salaried Employee May Be Entitled To Overtime

Written By Alex Santos

The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that a highly compensated employee is entitled to overtime pay.

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The Supreme Court held 6-3 in Helix Energy Solutions Group v. Hewitt that a former worker who earned more than $200,000 annually was entitled to overtime pay since he was paid on a daily basis.

Whether receiving at least a certain amount every day can be considered a salary was the deciding factor in the case. In a ruling authored by Justice Kagan, the court found that the employee was not exempt because the defendant corporation was not paying a salary as that term is defined by the FLSA.

The employee argued that because Helix calculated his salary using a daily rate, he should have received retroactive overtime compensation. The Supreme Court agreed.

For more on the case, including the ruling- please visit the court’s site here.

Alex Santos
As Managing Member of Collabor8 Learning, my role is to build and execute learning and development strategies for organizations seeking to improve the return they are getting from their training programs. We focus on four core areas: performance analysis, instructional design, e-learning development, and learning management. As a hybrid HR/instructional design consultancy, Collabor8 Learning partners with your team to leverage today's training technologies to increase the productivity of your people. I am a senior human resources and training executive with over 17 years of progressive experience. My work in private industry has focused heavily on the development of learning and development systems that transform employee performance from ordinary, to remarkable. I accomplish this by combining organizational development strategies and tactics to blended learning programs with line of sight alignment to clearly defined performance goals. Additionally, I launched Miami Payroll Center in conjunction with my brother and sister-in-law in 2004 to meet the payroll needs of small to mid-size organizations. Our consultative approach to guiding new entrepreneurs as well as more seasoned business owners in alleviating the pain of payroll processing has created a very successful and growing payroll processor in the market. Specialties: Instructional Systems Design, E-Learning, Learning Management Systems, Payroll, Organizational Development, Employee engagement, HR Strategic Planning, Talent Acquisition & Management, Leadership Development, Coaching & Mentoring, Employment Branding Proposition & Positioning, Workforce Planning, Performance Management, and Leadership Development.
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