Employment Question of the Day: April 28, 2020
By Kristy L. Albrecht, Joseph M. Sokolowski and Mary M. Krakow
Please explain the intersection of FFCRA and the FLSA, which sets the federal wage and hour rules for employers. Specifically, does reducing an eligible exempt employee’s salary to two-thirds their daily rate of pay, capped at $200, as allowed under FFCRA, put the employee’s exempt status at risk under the FLSA?