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Understanding and preventing wage theft in your organization

Business Management Daily

When employees put in a hard day’s work for their employer, they expect fair compensation for every hour they spend on the clock. Other benefits, such as meal breaks, workers’ compensation, and overtime pay, also qualify as wage theft when they’re withheld from workers who rightfully earned them. per hour as of July 24th, 2009).

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Under 50 employees? How FMLA could apply to you regardless

Business Management Daily

That can happen if the employer promises or appears to offer FMLA coverage through a handbook provision or policy. territory or possession; Any employee on the payroll , whether or not she’s received compensation that week; Employees on paid or unpaid leave you expect will return; Employees working for a foreign firm operating within the U.S.;

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Another federal agency (hint: it rhymes with “EEOB”) pays 7 figures to settle wage-and-hour claims

The Employer Handbook

million and other relief,” to resolve “a March 2009 arbitration ruling that found the agency had violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by requiring certain EEOC investigators, mediators and paralegals to take compensatory time off rather than overtime pay for excess hours worked.” Well, allegedly.

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Review Expense Reimbursement Policies for Relevance to Remote Work

HRWatchdog

2009)) ruled that employers cannot wait for an employee to submit a formal reimbursement request. The California Employee Handbook Creator Online Tool offers sample policies for subscribers. Each sample policy allows the user to choose from options to create the subscriber’s custom employee handbook. The court in Stuart v.

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Plan Sponsors Must Now Analyze 401(k) Plan Administration (Part 1)

HR Daily Advisor

The IRS last updated the model special tax notices in Notice 2014-74 to incorporate changes in the law since 2009, but as of yet has not issued an update incorporating the Code changes made by TCJA. Tomorrow we will look at part 2 of this article, including compensation definition and hardship distributions.

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There’s a metaphor for the $7 million that the DOL is paying to settle its own employees’ FLSA claims…

The Employer Handbook

The union claimed that the DOL didn’t compensate employees for “off-the-clock” work. Bush from 2001 to 2009. T hat’s the federal wage-and-hour statute that the DOL is tasked with enforcing. Elaine Chao served as U.S. Secretary of Labor under President George W.

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Another federal agency (hint: it rhymes with “EEOB”) pays 7 figures to settle wage-and-hour claims

The Employer Handbook

million and other relief,” to resolve “a March 2009 arbitration ruling that found the agency had violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by requiring certain EEOC investigators, mediators and paralegals to take compensatory time off rather than overtime pay for excess hours worked.” Well, allegedly.