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Understanding and preventing wage theft in your organization

Business Management Daily

Wage theft laws in America Certain labor laws, such as the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), apply to specific types of wage theft. per hour as of July 24th, 2009). If your HR team knows federal and state employment laws inside and out, you’ll significantly reduce the chances of wage theft.

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Under 50 employees? How FMLA could apply to you regardless

Business Management Daily

But there is another way that an employer that isn’t big enough can be trapped into having to provide coverage. That can happen if the employer promises or appears to offer FMLA coverage through a handbook provision or policy. Or if the number of employees plummets, but the employer had 50 or more workers the previous year.

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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. Castleton is counsel with Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton’s Employee Benefits Practice in the firm’s Washington, D.C.,

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EEOC Issues Guidance on Retaliation

HRWatchdog

Charges of retaliation surpassed race discrimination in 2009 as the most frequently alleged basis of discrimination, accounting for 44.5 Gail Cecchettini Whaley, CalChamber Employment Law Counsel/Content. The Employee Handbook Creator is available in both English and Spanish.

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Punching In & Out for Bathroom Breaks Costs Employer $1.75M

Workbright

From 2009 to 2013, the company operated 14 offices in Pennsylvania, Ohio, and New Jersey. Progressive Business Publications’ violation of minimum wage law could easily have been avoided if paid time had not been manipulated to exclude breaks. Did you know you can upload policies and employee handbooks in to your WorkBright account?

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The ADA at 25: It’s Comes Down to Making a Reasonable Accommodation

TLNT: The Business of HR

Save the Family and Medical Leave Act , I get more calls about the ADA from business owners, HR professionals, and decisionmakers, than any other employment law. Meyer’s blog, The Employer Handbook. The ADA provides broad coverage for employees. Predominantly, the issues we discuss focus on accommodations.

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WIRTW #423 (the “final frontier” edition)

Ohio Employer's Law

Emails Become an Expensive Sideshow in Employment Discrimination Lawsuits — via Michigan Employment Law Advisor. via Eric Meyer’s The Employer Handbook Blog. Unpaid Volunteers Are Not “Employees”, Says Court — via Dan Schwartz’s Connecticut Employment Law Blog. Maybe none. — via FisherBroyles.