Many Salaried Employees Are Still Owed Overtime Pay

The U.S. Department of Labor recently concluded an investigation in which it determined that a technological services company had misclassified 57 of its employees, which resulted in these 57 employees not receiving time-and-a-half overtime wages that they should have earned for work that they completed over forty hours in a workweek.  The Department of Labor's investigation found that the company wrongly classified these 57 employees as "administratively exempt" employees.  It also found that the company did not keep daily time records for the employees and that the company had not included a non-discretionary yearly bonus when calculating their overtime pay rates.  Employees should know that many salaried employees are still owed time-and-a-half overtime wages, and it is illegal for companies to misclassify its employees as salary exempt.  See https://www.dol.gov/newsroom/releases/whd/whd20220512