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You schedule your employees for meetings and compensate them accordingly. Case closed, right? But now they come to you and say you should have paid them reporting time pay and/or split-shift premiums for those days. When are those payments triggered?
EEOC requires a “prompt, thorough, and impartial” investigation of complaints of discrimination and harassment. In today’s Advisor, how to interview the complaining employee and the alleged offender. For help with this tricky task, we turned to HRhero/BLR’s Workplace Investigations: the HR Manager’s Step-by-Step Guide. Interviewing the Complaining Employee Attorney author Jody Shipper suggests HR investigators […]
As the implications of using social media in the workplace continue to loom large, not surprisingly, how such use affects information-gathering in employment law cases is gaining attention. Among the questions raised: In an employment-law dispute, can an employer subpoena an employee’s Facebook account as part of its evidence gathering? Yes, but with restrictions. Employers […]
The U.S. Department of Labor is abandoning its plan to limit when children under the age of 16 can work on farms. The plan, proposed in the fall, limited the Fair Labor Standards Act’s “parental exemption” and was intended to help reduce farm-related accidents. Introducing the now-defunct proposal, DOL officials said they were responding to […]
Applying CFRA/FMLA leave laws can be tricky. How can you be sure you’re applying the correct California and federal laws – and in the correct order? You want to stay in compliance, as well as be sensitive to your employees’ needs, but you also don’t want to keep approving leave if it’s not appropriate. In […]
By Don Dressler, Don Dressler Consulting It’s been a warm winter and promises to be a hot summer – are you prepared for preventing heat illness?
Yesterday, we looked at a recent California court case that highlighted the various factors you need to think about when you draft your arbitration agreements—as well as how you present them to employees. Today, some tips for success.
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has released new guidance related to employers’ use of applicant and employee arrest and conviction information. The new guidance, approved in a 4-1 vote during a meeting on April 25, includes information on how an employer’s use of an individual’s criminal history in making employment decisions could violate the […]
With individual employee claims snowballing into mountainous class actions more and more frequently, it’s no surprise that employers are increasingly requiring mandatory arbitration of employment-related disputes.
Employers with high-deductible health plans (HDHPs) that make it possible for employees to open health savings accounts (HSAs) have plenty of lead time to prepare for 2013. The IRS on April 27 issued Revenue Procedure (Rev. Proc.) 2012-26, which contains the HSA and HDHP limits for calendar year 2013. The HSA annual limits and the […]