3.1.1 An Overview of US Employment Law

Loading...

Do curso por University of Minnesota

Managing Employee Compensation

345 ratings

University of Minnesota

Managing Employee Compensation

345 ratings

Curso 4 de 5 em Specialization Human Resource Management: HR for People Managers

How do I pay employees? And how do I get paid? This course covers how to pay employees. We begin by asking: "What kind of a person do I need to attract, retain, and motivate for my business to succeed?" From here, we'll explain how to translate that pay strategy into the pay mix: the salary structure, short-term incentives, long-term incentives, and benefits that are aligned to your business objectives. Interested in learning more about the technical aspects of compensation, but don't know where to begin? We'll give an overview of key the key technical skills: compliance with pay regulations, understanding stock options, shopping for health insurance and pension providers, and designing incentive plans. Lastly, we'll discuss non-monetary methods of motivating employees. If you're interested in learning how to pay employees, or learning where your paycheck comes from, this course is for you!

Na lição

Benefits and Compliance

This module covers pay compliance, the Fair Labor Standards Act, statutory benefits (like OASDI), and non-statutory benefits (like 401ks).

3.1.1 An Overview of US Employment Law5:15

3.1.2 Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) Protections and Coverage7:16

3.1.3 FLSA in Practice10:19

3.1.4 FLSA Exemptions9:12

Conheça os instrutores

Alan Benson
Assistant Professor
Carlson School of Management, Department of Work and Organizations
Mike Davis
Senior Lecturer
Carlson School of Management, Department of Work and Organizations

Welcome back.

In this lesson we're talking about pay compliance in the United States.

And so naturally this is a very big topic.

And so we're going to have a very specific plan of attack.

The first thing we're going to do is offer a pay compliance in terms

of its legal framework in the United States.

Then we're going to give an overview of some of the main laws and

the topics that they cover.

And then, we're going to zoom in to one topic in particular.

Those are the topics covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act.

And by zooming in on that one particular piece of legislation,

which is very important for compensation, we get a better feel for

the way pay laws work in the United States.

So without further ado, let's get to pay compliance in the legal framework.

So, how does that work in the United States?

Well, first of all, there are federal laws.

So, for example, taking the example of the minimum wage,

there's a federal minimum wage of $7.25 per hour as of January 2016 and

so, that covers all of the United States.

However, in some states such as California, California will have

a specific higher minimum wage, that is higher than the federal statutory minimum.

For example in January 2016, California state minimum wage was $9 per hour.

And then moreover within some localities within California,

they'll even have a higher minimum wage than that.

So for example, in San Francisco, which is a very progressive city,

San Francisco has $12, a minimum wage of $12.25 per hour.

So let's say that you're in San Francisco and

you wanted to pay a wage of $11 per hour.

You said, well yeah, but the national minimum wage is lower than that.

Well, you can't do that because employers have to comply with federal laws,

state laws and local laws, and whichever highest one applies.

And so if you look at the United States as a whole,

again, there's a federal minimum wage but different states will have different laws.

And so let's look back into July of 2009.

In July of 2009, there were some states like California that had

a minimum wage that are better or higher than the federal minimum wage.

There were some states such as New York which had the same rate as

the federal rate.

There were some states such as Minnesota that had a minimum wage that was

below the federal rate.

And then there are some states that had no minimum wage legislation whatsoever.

And so you might think it's strange that the states can have

a minimum wage that's actually lower than the federal statutory minimum.

Well in that case employers in those states would still need to comply with

the minimum set by the federal government.

Let's take another example from the Fair Pay Act of 1963.

The Fair Pay Act of 1963 says you can't pay women less than men simply because

they're women, and again that's a federal law and that applies to all states.

However, there's going to be some states again, we'll take the example

of California, that says not only do you have to comply with that federal law,

but moreover men and women must be paid the same for substantially similar work,

and this just happened in 2015.

That's a higher standard than the federal law.

And so there are many different ways that federal, state, and

local laws can differ from each other.

So we talked about minimum wage levels.

Another example would be minimum wages for tipped workers.

Under federal law you can pay a tipped worker, such as waiters and waitresses and

bartenders and so on, a lower rate than that federal statutory minimum.

And the employer, if those tips come in too low,

would have to compensate workers to bring them up to another level.

But this can all vary by federal and state laws.

For example, some states won't have a separate lower rate for

workers in tipping occupations.

Another difference could be who's covered by minimum wage laws.

There's certain classes of workers such as interns or others or

teenagers who may not be covered by those minimum wage laws.

Also they could be different in terms of the non discrimination protections.

We saw the example of California versus the federal government for example.

And there's also several others so for example whether short breaks

are acquired, also whether long breaks would need to be paid.

How often employers need to pay their workers?

What the requirements are for paid family leave and so on?

And so we'll go over some examples of how those laws vary by state

in our next video.

Thanks and I'll see you soon.

Explore nosso catálogo

Registre-se gratuitamente e obtenha recomendações, atualizações e ofertas personalizadas.

O Coursera proporciona acesso universal à melhor educação do mundo fazendo parcerias com as melhores universidades e organizações para oferecer cursos on-line.

© 2018 Coursera Inc. Todos os direitos reservados.

Baixar na App Store

Baixar no Google Play