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Flexible Schedules Can Create Wage, Hour Pitfalls for Employers

HRWatchdog

With a fluctuating job market, employers are looking for ways to retain and attract staff, but California, unfortunately, makes flexible workplace scheduling difficult. To start, employers must pay overtime to nonexempt employees when the employee works more than eight hours in a workday or 40 hours in a workweek.

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Child Care Issues Can Prompt Move to Create Alternative Schedule

HRWatchdog

My hourly employee asked for a flexible schedule where she would work four 10-hour days instead of five eight-hour days due to child care issues. Do we have to pay any overtime if we agree with the employee’s request? Child care and schooling often create strain on the regular five-day-a-week, eight-hour workday schedule.

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