How AI may make more employees eligible for overtime pay

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Artificial intelligence is not just disrupting the way employees get work done, but how they’ll be paid for it, too. 

Under the current Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), all employees in the U.S. must be paid their rate of time, plus one-half of that rate for every hour worked outside of the standard 40-hour workweek, unless they fall under certain exemptions. But as AI continues to change the nature of employees’ work responsibilities, those exemptions may no longer apply — leaving compensation tactics up for debate

Paola Peralta
Associate Editor

Paola Peralta is an Associate Editor at Employee Benefit News and has been with the team for five years. She is a proud UCF journalism graduate who got her start through a Dow Jones News Fund … Read full bio


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