Recent fedsmith.com articles discuss the number of recent arbitration decisions that have gone against Federal agencies and have resulted in tens of millions of dollars in overtime payments to bargaining unit employees wrongly designated as exempt from the FLSA. The overtime and associated costs paid by multiple Federal agencies in arbitration decisions or in settlements reached by the parties has been truly staggering and should trigger in federal agencies the need to ensure that all individuals making decisions that relate to FLSA–the HR specialists who determine FLSA exemption status and the managers and supervisors who assign and track work hours–know how to apply FLSA requirements. Has your agency yet re-evaluated your FLSA designations and reviewed how they are applied by managers and supervisors?

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2619/raiders-lost-art-overtime-lawyer-loots-treasury.html

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2690/raiders-lost-art-part-two-analysis.html

http://www.fedsmith.com/article/2702/raiders-lost-art-part-three-lessons.html