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2024 Mid-Year Legal Updates: Understanding the New Federal Overtime Rule 

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This update will drastically impact how businesses classify employees and calculate wages. This update will drastically impact how businesses classify employees and calculate wages. Enacted in 1938, the FLSA aimed to improve working conditions and ensure fair wages for American workers. What Constitutes Hours Worked?

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Big Changes for Overtime! What Employers Need to Know About the New DOL Rule 

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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) sets minimum wage and overtime requirements for most U.S. The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) sets minimum wage and overtime requirements for most U.S. Under the current FLSA rules, many salaried workers are exempt from overtime pay, even if they work more than 40 hours a week.

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What Does it Mean to be Self-Employed?

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They put in about 1 million hours a week and contribute $1 trillion to the U.S. they can be as diverse as a physician in private practice or an artist who sells paintings online. 75% are the sole or major wage-earner in their household. Who would give up a steady paycheck to go out on their own chasing gig after gig?

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2023 Recapped: Our Top 5 HR Blogs for SMBs

Extensis

This year, several HR topics came into focus time and time again, including how to drive employee engagement , the need for next-level employee benefits plans, and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) best practices. If possible, offering work hours accommodating employees’ fasting, prayers, and charity event schedules.

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How SMBs Can Start Closing the Pay Gap Now

Zenefits

No employer expects to pay every employee the same wage. Job type, job title, skills, education, credentials, training, experience, and even geography factor into pay differences. But when employers pay workers with the same or similar qualifications stark differences in wages, they’re likely engaging in discriminatory pay practices.

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Pay Transparency Act: British Columbia Takes Action on Equal Pay

Trusaic

From November 1, employers must also include wage information in job postings and provide annual pay transparency reports. In attempting to gain accurate insights into the experiences of diverse groups, the picture becomes even more complex. But accessing accurate, and consistent information has been challenging.

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Workplace ESG: How Environmental, Social, and Governance Factors Impact Employee Experience

Great Place to Work

Social – How does an action affect people in the broadest, most diverse sense? The connection between purpose; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors ; employee engagement; and business results. ESG represents the environmental, social, and governance impacts stemming from your organization's activities.