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Exempt Employees: Why Court Tossed Out Class Action Charging Overtime Misclassification
New Tip-Reporting Program Available
Paychecks For Arab And Muslim Men Have Declined Since 9/11
Court Says Pepsi Bottler Violated Military Pay Rules
Employer Pays For Child Labor Violations
New IRS Rules On Supplemental Wage Payments
Be Your Company’s ‘Other CEO’ (Chief Ethics Officer)
Research shows that good business ethics pay off financially as well as legally. Here’s how to promote “doing the right thing” in your organization. Enron’s Jeffrey Skilling. Worldcom’s Bernie Ebbers. Tyco’s Dennis Kozlowski. Their antics cost stockholders a fortune, robbed employees of their livelihood, and resulted in all of them facing long prison terms. But […]
State Law Affects HR Records Retention, Too
With 50 states, there can be 50 different sets of requirements on any employment law. Here’s a way to quickly scan them all. The recent Advisor article on “data breach” noted that there are 22 different state laws on protection of records, not to mention New York City having its own law. What’s more, the […]
Halloween Week’s Scariest Possibility for Business: Data Breach
The scariest thing this week may not be what can happen on the streets, but what can happen around your personnel files. With Halloween this week, ghouls and goblins are all around us. But it doesn’t take a special day for mischief-makers to show up in the workplace. And the trouble they can cause goes […]