California Employers That Offer Piece Rate, Listen Up!

Posted on Thu, Apr 25, 2013

If you are employing piece-rate employees who don’t get paid for downtime, California Courts have just given you a piece of their minds. 

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Tags: HR Allen Consulting Services, HR Informant, Minimum Wage, Commissions, Downtime, Pay, Piece Rate

Ruling on Commissions Helps Employers

Posted on Fri, Mar 09, 2012

A California Court of Appeal sided with an employer in a recent lawsuit over unpaid overtime wages. Clarifying the definition of a commissioned inside salesperson, the court found that the employer properly classified the employees as exempt, and therefore owed the employees no overtime compensation. Muldrew v. Surrex Solutions Corp., 202 Cal.App.4th 1232 (2012)

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Tags: commission, inside sales, salesperson, outside sales, HR Allen Consulting Services, Commissions