'Cell phone OT' lawsuit underscores big pay pitfall
Cell phones are extremely handy, and they can dramatically increase employee productivity. But if your employees use them after work hours, they could be a legal nightmare.
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Learn MoreCell phones are extremely handy, and they can dramatically increase employee productivity. But if your employees use them after work hours, they could be a legal nightmare.
The rules on which employees are exempt from overtime may be complicated, but a recent court ruling highlights one simple fact:
Intermittent leave has rapidly become the No. 1 headache for HR/Benefits pros everywhere. But adding these measures to your FMLA policy will certainly ease the pain.
The Department of Labor’s released new proposed regs on providing advice to participants in individual retirement plans.
Are you ready for the three most difficult conversations you’ve had in a while?
In early January, 49 states (Florida was spared) had snow on the ground. The large accumulations this winter have forced a lot of people to miss work – and called into question many companies’ time-off policies.
With the rush of year-end in full swing and the New Year around the corner, these four important employee notifications can slip through the cracks at the start of 2009.
Sexual harassment prevention training is generally not HR professionals’ favorite thing. Here are some guidelines to make the experience more useful for both management and employees — courtesy of guest poster Jimmy Lin, vice president of The Network.
Flex plans and telecommuting have become essential to maintaining operations. And it’s important to remember that, while a necessity in many cases, these work options carry some thorny legal issues.
A lot of employees, especially your troublemakers (you know who they are), think they’re safe when they leave the work premises. They’re not.
Two thousand-plus pages … that’s a lot of law. So no one would blame you for not reading the healthcare reform law word for word. And if you didn’t, here are some things you probably don’t know it requires.
Employers that have managed to hang on to their grandfathered health plans for this long will want to pay close attention to the feds’ final regs on the subject.
For the seventh straight year, the number of wage and hour lawsuits filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) has increased — and there are a number of reasons employers should fear the news is only going to get worse.
Whether to save money or administrative headaches, many employers make these all-to-common HR mistakes that can cost them big time.
Even under the Trump administration, the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is still a real, enforceable law. You already know this. But do all of your employees?
Check out the two-pronged test that saved this employer’s bacon in a recent overtime pay class-action lawsuit.
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