{"id":1638,"date":"2009-08-31T22:18:22","date_gmt":"2009-09-01T02:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/?p=1638"},"modified":"2009-08-31T22:18:22","modified_gmt":"2009-09-01T02:18:22","slug":"use-of-employee-leasing-company-could-subject-non-profit-institution-to-flsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/2009\/08\/use-of-employee-leasing-company-could-subject-non-profit-institution-to-flsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Use of Employee Leasing Company Could Subject Non-profit Institution to FLSA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">US Department of Labor (DOL)<\/span><\/a> recently issued Administrator signed Opinion Letter <a href=\"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/2009_01_16_20_flsa.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">FLSA2009-20<\/a>. Although Opinion Letters only apply to the exact set of facts and circumstances presented in each case, they are a valuable aid in understanding current interpretations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 6pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">In this Opinion Letter, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">DOL<\/span><\/a> stated that non-profit organizations could be subject to enterprise coverage under the FLSA. In those situations in which the leasing company and the non-profit organization are determined to be a single enterprise, an otherwise exempt non-profit institution could be subject to the FLSA. The leasing company\u2019s status as a covered enterprise under the FLSA could jeopardize the non-profit\u2019s exempt status under the FLSA. Although organizations which have received an Opinion Letter from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dol.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">DOL<\/a> might be able to be assured that their status has not been jeopardized, other non-profit organizations should consider if any perceived benefits of using an employee leasing organization are worth the substantial risk of losing their exempt status under the FLSA.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in 0in 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana; font-size: 10pt;\">State laws may provide rules that are more beneficial to the employee and must be followed. Contact <a href=\"mailto:info@visionpayroll.com\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\">Vision Payroll<\/span><\/a> if you have questions about this Opinion Letter.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor (DOL) recently issued Administrator signed Opinion Letter FLSA2009-20. Although Opinion Letters only apply to the exact set of facts and circumstances presented in each case, they are a valuable aid in understanding current interpretations of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). In this Opinion Letter, the DOL stated that non-profit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[154,82,1021,1022,1023,151,89],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1638"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1638\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/old.visionpayroll.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}