It is all-too-common for employers to make expensive mistakes where the FLSA tip-credit is concerned.

A little-known FLSA overtime exception might allow you to increase employees' basic academic abilities without having to pay FLSA overtime premium for the time they spend learning.

The employee-misclassification "Memorandum of Understanding" entered into between the U.S. Labor Department and the U.S. Internal Revenue Service should cause every employer to take notice.

The relevant question under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act gets down to whether Ellen was "engaged to wait" or was "waiting to be engaged".