U.S. Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta (By US Department of Labor (L-17-05-01-C-AlexanderAcosta-023-E) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons)I have often blogged about the usefulness of USDOL (or any DOL) Opinion Letters and I have lamented that this procedure was stopped under President Obama. I hailed that the new Secretary of Labor was going back to it. Well, we have hit the bonanza and the year has just started! Opinion Letters provide a mechanism for businesses (or individuals) to ask that the DOL provide formal guidance on specific factual and/or compliance issues under the FLSA. The agency has now re-issued more than a dozen advisory opinion letters that had been published towards the end of the Bush administration but were later rescinded. The reinstated letters address inclusion of bonus issues, employee exemption issues, especially the administrative exemption and whether “on-call” hours constitute hours worked in certain…
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