Running the Business · Part 6

Employees: wage and hour, overtime, meal and rest periods, final-pay rules, and the workers' compensation class code

The first employee brings a body of law that a plumbing contractor runs into every single day: the minimum wage where the work is done, daily overtime after eight hours, the meal period before the end of the fifth hour, the ten-minute rest every four hours, the premium hour owed for each missed break, the final check due the day someone is fired, and the wage statement that has to show all of it. This lesson is the working rules with the section for each, the timekeeping that proves compliance, the final-pay clock that catches almost every new employer, and the workers' compensation class code that decides what a plumbing payroll costs to insure.