DOL Issues New Opinion Letters
May 2, 2019
- whether a youth residential care facility may implement an “8 and 80” overtime pay system;
- the application of the teacher exemption to Nutritional Outreach Instructors employed by a public university;
- the application of the agricultural exemption to the freezing, cutting, packing, storing, and/or transportation of a farm’s own fruit, vegetable, or meat products; and
- whether a service provider for a virtual marketplace company is an employee of the company or an independent contractor under the FLSA.
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