WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court ruled Monday that car dealerships’ service advisers, like car salesmen and mechanics, are exempt under federal law from overtime pay requirements. The court ruled 5-4 that service advisers, who greet customers and propose various repair ...

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The Baltimore Police Department is in a time of crisis. Ineptitude and corruption exist at many levels in the department. It is time for systemic change. Crime has soared since the 2015 Freddie Gray uprising, police overtime is out of ...

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A federal jury Thursday awarded approximately $25,000 to a man who was misclassified as a salaried employee for more than six years and not paid overtime. Andre Jackson worked for ReliaSource Inc., a Baltimore technological services company, from May 2009 through ...

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A federal judge’s 11th-hour ruling that blocks new overtime pay rules means Maryland employers can keep the status quo and drop their frantic rush to meet the Dec. 1 regulations, labor and employment law experts said Wednesday. But the ruling ...

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LAS VEGAS — In a blow to the Obama administration’s labor-law plans, a federal court has blocked the start of a rule that would have made an estimated 4 million more American workers eligible for overtime pay heading into the ...

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White-collar workers across the country will see a change in how their employers compensate them and handle their hours starting Dec. 1, when changes to the Fair Labor Standards Act will extend the right to overtime pay to an additional ...

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More than 4 million U.S. workers — included an estimated 80,000 in Maryland — will become newly eligible for overtime pay under rules to be issued Wednesday by the Obama administration. The policy changes are intended to counter erosion in ...

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A national provider of home health care workers based in Columbia faces dozens of lawsuits claiming the company improperly classified workers to avoid paying them minimum wage and overtime. As of Friday afternoon, 73 complaints have been filed in U.S. ...

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President Barack Obama will direct the Labor Department to strengthen overtime pay protections for millions of workers, a White House official said.

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Montgomery County data show 136 county workers earned at least $40,000 each in overtime pay last year, an increase from 94 workers a year earlier.

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