カリフォルニアではNon-Exemptのボーナスには注意しないといけない。例えば長期勤続のボーナスは、個人の裁量や会社の業績によって、会社が勝手に判断するものではなく、○○ヶ月働いたら自動的に支払われるボーナスだ。
カリフォルニアの労働法では、この○○ヶ月働いたら自動的に払われるボーナスを固定給の一部としてとらえないといけない。つまり、固定給の一部として払われることになると、Non-Exemptの時給が変わるということだ。時給$10だった人が、ボーナスを受け取ったことで時給11ドルになるかもしれない。
この時、新しく変更になった時給を基に、残業代を再度計算する必要が出てくる。
上の例では、以前に時給$10に対して、1.5倍の残業代を計算していたとしたら、
今度は時給$11に対して、1.5倍の残業代を計算しないといけない。
Non-Exemptに会社の判断で変更できないボーナスを出すときは時給のベースが変わってしまうことに注意しよう。残業代の再計算が必要になる。
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▼下記の例はCostcoで上記のトピックで係争されたケースだ。
No California Rules for Bonus Overtime Calculations, Court Says
Anyone who deals with payroll has probably gotten a headache or two trying to understand out how bonuses figure into overtime calculations.
Under both state and federal law, non-discretionary bonuses must be included in an employee’s "regular rate of pay" in order to calculate overtime pay. Unfortunately, differences between federal regulations and California law have long made determining the regular rate a confusing process. A recent California appeals court decision provides some guidance for employers—well, sort of.
In Marin v. Costco Wholesale Corp, employees brought a class action lawsuit alleging that Costco’s method for including bonuses in overtime calculations violated California law. Costco rewarded its long-term employees with semi-annual bonuses, provided that the employee remained in Costco’s employment at bonus time and had worked at least 1,000 hours in the six months preceding the bonus cutoff date. Because the bonuses were paid semi-annually, the overtime calculation pay-rate had to be done retroactively when the bonuses were paid, as required by state and federal law, rather than for each employee’s weekly paycheck.
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Reversing a $5.3 million dollar judgment against Costco, the Court of Appeals held that the employer’s method of calculation—which used the same overtime pay rate for all employees who met the 1,000 hour minimum—did not violate either California or federal law. The Court of Appeals concluded that there are no rules in California for how to include bonuses in overtime pay rate calculations.
What does this mean for you? If you’re following the federal formula for calculating bonus overtime, it means you’re probably not in danger of running afoul of California law. It also means that you should review your pay policies to make sure that, at a minimum, bonus amounts are in fact being included in overtime calculations.