Don’t Miss These Resources if You Are Interested Wage Bonuses, Prevailing Wages; Dual Eligibles

ANCOR is sharing the resources listed below in case they are informative to our members in their functions as employers and providers of disability supports.

From the Department of Labor (DOL):

Opinion Letter on FLSA and bonuses: The Department of Labor issued an opinion letter on “whether the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) requires an employer to include a nondiscretionary bonus that is a fixed percentage of straight-time wages received over multiple workweeks in the calculation of the employees’ regular rate of pay at the end of each workweek—and if not, whether the employer may, when paying the bonus, recalculate the regular rate for each workweek of the bonus period by averaging the bonus earnings across the workweeks.” Read the letter here.

Seminars on prevailing wages coming to DC, Sacramento and Indianapolis in July / August. Please click on the link for dates and locations.

As shared by DOL: “The Wage and Hour Division Prevailing Wage Seminars are three-day compliance trainings designed for regional stakeholders (e.g., unions, private contractors, state agencies, federal agencies, workers). In these seminars, conference participants will learn about the following:

• Davis-Bacon Act and McNamara-O’Hara Service Contract Act
• Executive Order 13495, “Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers”
• Executive Order 13658, “Establishing a Minimum Wage for Contractors”
• The process of obtaining wage determinations and adding classifications
• Compliance assistance and enforcement processes
• The process for appealing wage rates, coverage, and compliance determinations”

From the Commonwealth Fund:

PowerPoint from webinar titled “What Do New Changes for Medicare-Medicaid Enrollees Mean for Health Systems, Providers and Patients?”

Topics covered by the webinar include:

• An overview of the dual-eligible population.
• Promising integration vehicles for Medicare/ Medicaid.
• Lessons learned.