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Emergency pay is not one of the items excluded from the regular rate of pay and, therefore, as DOL opined, it must be included in the overtime formula and thus acts to boost up the amount of overtime premium pay due the worker.
The Wage and Hour Division recently opined that a restaurant can claim a tip credit for oyster shuckers who work “front-of-house” at an oyster bar because they are among the kinds of employees who regularly and customarily receive tips.
It looks like a tale of two cities for the government contracting community here in 2025. A few big weapons producers and aerospace contractors, on one side, are very prosperous and optimistic, and everyone else fighting for a smaller pile of scraps and keeping their lips buttoned down.
