Highly Paid and Overtime Eligible? Understand the FLSA’s Salary Basis Test

Do you need to advise your clients about the “salary basis" requirement for various overtime exemptions under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)? Review our practice note, Salary Basis Requirement and Docking Pay under the FLSA, by Adriana S. Kosovych of Epstein Becker & Green, which has been updated to discuss the Supreme Court’s recent decision on the salary basis test for highly compensated employees in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt, 2023 U.S. LEXIS 944 (Feb. 22, 2023).

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