Can you ask employees to work during FMLA leave? Better be careful
If you’ve got an employee who takes FMLA leave, you may have to check in with him or her occasionally. But be careful not to cross this line.
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The American workweek is shrinking. Part-time work is on the rise at companies like yours, yet hourly employees are putting in fewer work hours per week than they did just a few years ago. Utilizing payroll data to track about 13 million individual jobs each month from October 2019 to December 2023, the ADP Research…
Do you know how to calculate overtime pay for this employee without running afoul of the FLSA? Here’s the scenario: You pay a non-exempt employee who travels a lot on the job one rate for in-office work and another, reduced rate for when he’s merely on the road traveling and not doing normal work. Calculating…
How closely are you watching your employees? If it’s too closely, the feds may be watching you – and may soon be taking more aggressive action to stop it. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) just issued a memo announcing an intent to protect employees “from intrusive or abusive electronic monitoring and automated management practices.”…
A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit reluctantly affirmed a lower court’s decision to reject sex bias claims filed by female detention officers who – unlike their male counterparts — were not allowed full weekends off. The case involved nine female detention service officers at the Dallas County Sheriff’s…
Has the time come to make an employee scheduling software change? While some human capital management (HCM) platforms have a scheduler built in, it may lack specific workforce management capabilities that your business needs. A classic example of this is industries that have shift-based positions, including health care, senior care, restaurant and hospitality, call centers,…
Let’s go retro to fix hiring and retention woes: Job sharing could be this year’s solution. Job sharing — when two, or sometimes, more — employees share the duties of one job, working in sync, but separately. (We’ll get into more details on the working logistics later in this story). The portion of job ads…
Despite other countries around the world adopting the four-day workweek, the idea seems like a pipedream for most American workers. But a handful of members of Congress are hoping to change that. In an effort led by Rep. Mark Takano (CA-D) and backed by thirteen other Democratic congressmen, a new bill aims to reduce standard…
There’s good employee-benefit legislation, and there’s bad employee-benefit legislation. You can make the call on this one.
The arrival of Hurricane Dorian — and the dreaded aftermath — has a lot of employers wondering about HR challenges that come along with natural disasters. FLSA and FMLA compliance is a big concern at times like this, and employment lawyer Kara Maciel answered some common questions HR pros have when disaster strikes. Wage and…
First, the pandemic changed where we do work. Then, it changed how we do work. Now, workforce changes from the past few years are changing when we do work. Working from home has opened up a new world to employees – one where they can get their work done and still find the time and…
A labor union and its apprenticeship program will pay $1.65 million to settle part of a race discrimination suit that was first filed in 1971 — and will continue.
If the past few years have taught us anything, the most important lesson for HR pros to remember might be there’s no predicting what’s to come. Between COVID-19, economic uncertainty and labor shortages, planning for anything is proving to be more difficult as the future of work remains uncertain. However, the changes over the past…
As a one- or two-person shop wearing multiple hats in addition to HR — payroll and workplace safety are probably under your wing as well — protecting your time is a constant challenge. That includes not reinventing the wheel when it comes to the hundreds of forms you work with during a year. The good…
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