Month: April 2009

Atlanta is replete with people who work in the field of home health care. Home health care workers have a special set of regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act. For instance, a home health care worker may or may not be entitled to overtime pay, depending on the circumstances of employment. First, the definition. A home health care worker is someone who provides home health care services for individuals who (because of age or infirmity) are unable to care for themselves. They may be employed by the household itself,…

Most salaried employees don’t get overtime pay. But is the reverse true-does an employer have to pay full salary if the employee isn’t at work? Some deductions from pay will be proper, but some may cause an employee to lose that exempt status and qualify for overtime. Allowable deductions to your salary, according to a July 2008 Department Of Labor fact sheet, include where an exempt employee: is absent from work for one or more full days for personal reasons other than sickness or disability; for absences of one or…