2:49 am on Tuesday March 24, 2009
| Posted by Ken Hawkins
Furloughs are all the rage; here's some facts
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If you have been or are concerned about furloughs, The Charleston Regional Business Journal has an excellent primer from last month about the topic.
Read more stories on this subject in our furlough topic page.They talk about who's been doing it, legal pitfalls for the employer, and cover some legal challenges that have been made.
An excerpt:
Salaried employees
Labor laws are trickier when it comes to salaried employees, she said. Implementing repeated mandatory furloughs could jeopardize the exempt status of salaried employees and therefore require that they be paid overtime.
That’s particularly true if, by means of a furlough, an employee’s salary dips below $455 per week, the minimum amount of money that salaried employees must be paid, Hightower said.
