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By Greg Autuori, manager, Benefits Consulting, at Namely You made it. Somehow, some way, you found a way to make sure your company was compliant with the first year of IRC 6055/6056 reporting regulations and associated distribution of Forms 1094/1095. This was a monumental task, and over the past year, there’s a good chance you’ve […]
When Patrice Hall sat in Denver’s Mile High Stadium listening to Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at the Democratic National Convention (DNC) last August, she had never felt so inspired and hopeful. After almost two decades in line management, Hall has spent the last 13 years as a diversity executive, most recently as head of the […]
McCarthy Tetrault A recent decision by the Supreme Court of Canada may make it easier for employees and employers to appeal decisions of administrative agencies to the courts. In Canada, and from an HR perspective, such agencies include labor boards, labor arbitrators, human rights tribunals, pay equity tribunals, and employment standards adjudicators. Imagine an employee […]
California is one of only three states in the country that require mandatory sexual harassment prevention training for supervisors. Of those three—Connecticut and Maine are the other two—the rules for California employers are the most detailed. Failure to adequately train supervisors can become evidence in a lawsuit that an employer hasn’t taken “all reasonable and […]
For employers, one of the most frustrating aspects of family and medical leaves is guarding against employee abuse of intermittent and reduced-schedule leaves.
Franchisers in Seattle are faced with phasing in the city’s $15-an-hour minimum wage more quickly than they had hoped now that the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has rejected their bid to be classified as small businesses, a decision the franchisers call discriminatory. In 2014, Seattle passed a minimum wage law that requires employers […]
The federal government resumed operations this week. As the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division gets up and running, operations to enforce the Fair Labor Standards Act are likely to resume quickly. Smart employers should brush up on DOL enforcement basics so they’re prepared. DOL is authorized by the FLSA to investigate and […]
In yesterday’s Advisor, attorney Stephen R. Woods summarized two key cases relating to technology policies; today his tips, and some good news—your job descriptions are updated and waiting on a CD. Woods is a shareholder in the Greenville, South Carolina office of law firm Ogletree Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart, PC. His remarks came at […]
Job opportunities should be plentiful for the college Class of 2017, which is good news for graduates. However, two recent surveys suggest employers face stiff competition when recruiting these candidates.
by Jeff Hurt On March 23, 2010, President Barack Obama signed the health care reform bill ― officially known as the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. Part of the Act that didn’t get much media attention affects nursing mothers in the workplace. Specifically, the Act requires a covered employer to provide an employee who […]