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On February 22, 2023, the United States Supreme Court in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt<\/em>\u00a0<\/a> held that a highly compensated executive employee paid a guaranteed daily rate is not paid on a \u2018salary basis\u2019 and therefore, is a nonexempt employee entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The decision should alert employers to review their classification of employees as exempt versus nonexempt to ensure compliance with applicable federal and state requirements.<\/p>\n

The Fair Labor Standards Act<\/strong><\/p>\n

While the FLSA requires that most employees be paid overtime for work time in excess of 40 hours, it exempts several categories of positions from that requirement. The most common exemptions from overtime are referred to as the “white-collar exemptions,” which include executive, administrative, professional, outside sales, IT professionals, and highly compensated executive positions.<\/p>\n

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On February 22, 2023, the United States Supreme Court in Helix Energy Solutions Group, Inc. v. Hewitt\u00a0 held that a highly compensated executive employee paid a guaranteed daily rate is not paid on a \u2018salary basis\u2019 and therefore, is a nonexempt employee entitled to overtime pay under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The decision […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[65,247,291],"tags":[],"coauthors":[296],"class_list":["post-5393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-insights","category-labor-employment-insights","category-gingeleskie"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nThe United States Supreme Court Rules Highly Paid Employees May Still Be Eligible For Overtime — March 14, 2023 — Lindabury, McCormick, Estabrook & Cooper, P.C. 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