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What your business can do NOW to prepare for the DOL ‘Blacklisting’ rules and guidance.

The Employer Handbook

However, by Halloween next year, just about any federal contractor or subcontractor with a contract valued at $500,000 (except for subcontracts for commercial-off-the-shelf products) will have to comply with these rules. In 2014, President Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. There are other pitfalls too.

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Please Sue Me 2016

HR Daily Advisor

Fifty percent of the decisions he or she makes relating to those tasks took less than 9 minutes, and only 12 percent of those decisions took more than 1 hour. The Harvard Business Review of March 2016 finds that the best forecasters constantly reassess and share their estimates. Train your managers. Think It Through.

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Don’t let this be the year that your business faces a big wage and hour lawsuit

The Employer Handbook

” Send Off. Today, for the myriad retweets and mentions that they give me on Twitter, I want to give a timely shout out to my friends at Seyfarth Shaw’s Workplace Class Action Blog and share with all of you suckers that a summary of their 2016 Workplace Class Action Report is now available.

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Are paralegals entitled to overtime under the FLSA? Probably.

The Employer Handbook

So, I asked the audience, which was comprised of most generalists, how many often worked more than 40 hours per workweek? Then, I asked how many were paid overtime for working over 40 hours per workweek. The FLSA requires that employees receive minimum wage of not less than $7.25 And then we got to the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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it’s your Friday good news

Ask a Manager

The minute theaters were recommended to close for Covid I pretty much knew I wouldn’t have a job to go back to when they opened again – and sure enough, I was furloughed at Easter and laid off in August. It’s your Friday good news, with more accounts of success even in this weird time. I’m a consultant in IT security.

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Employment laws to watch in 2018

Insperity

The law was signed in 2016, giving employers a little over a year to accommodate this new requirement. Paid family leave is funded through an additional payroll tax deduction and offers 50 percent of employees’ base wages up to a certain amount in 2018, with gradual increases to 67 percent of average weekly earnings by 2021.

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HRUSA Launches in 12 States

HRWatchdog

Recently, with the help of Weintraub Tobin, HRUSA published white papers on new laws and noteworthy new legislation for 2016 including: Wage and Hour laws. Employers wishing to learn more about HRUSA should visit www.hrusa.com. Workplace Safety. Healthcare. ABOUT HRUSA. Access HRUSA products at www.hrusa.com.