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Can employers pay inflated expenses to employees and avoid counting them towards overtime?

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uppose you commonly reimburse employees for certain expenses like mileage, meals, or equipment. Suppose instead of paying them the usual rate of “x,” you decide to pay them significantly more, like maybe “4x” for those expenses. Can you do so and exclude those payments from the employee’s regular rate of pay if

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rsquo;t. Here’s why. The Fair Labor Standards Act requires employers to pay non-exempt employees at least one and one-half times the “regular rate” at which the employee is employed for all hours worked after 40 hours in a workweek. That regular rate must

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