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Knowing When a Bonus Must Be Included In Overtime Pay

murphyfletcher2By Murphy H. Fletcher

Everyone likes a bonus, right?  Employees enjoy receiving them, for obvious reasons, and employers use them as a means of rewarding employee achievements and increasing morale.  But while paying employees a bonus can seem like a relatively straightforward benefit, depending on how the employer structures the bonus, the bonus can have long-reaching affects by increasing a non-exempt employee’s regular rate of pay for overtime purposes.

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