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The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) dictates minimum wage and overtime requirements, but it also allows for exemptions when specific requirements are met. Employers utilize these exemptions for qualified positions by classifying the employee as exempt—which means that individual will no longer be subject to overtime pay requirements. As long as all the qualifications within […]
In yesterday’s Advisor, we listed 15 management actions that can increase your company’s risk of being sued. Today, we present 12 more manager/supervisor actions that you must be training against according to our sister publication HR Daily Advisor.
In today’s Advisor, we share some valuable advice from our sister publication, HR Daily Advisor, on how to use training to avoid lawsuits.
Benefits can make your company look more attractive to recruits program, not to mention increase the value of your compensation package. However, costs are always a factor. Read on to see the results of our Perks and Insurance Survey—and see how your practices stack up to what’s happening out there.
At the end of the day, most employees’ pay and benefits extend far beyond the base salary. Many employers are beginning to present total compensation statements (also known as total reward statements) as a means of showing employees how the organization is investing in them.
Unfortunately, since employees can bring a suit for just about anything, no amount of training can guarantee eliminating employee lawsuits. However, if you implement effective management training, you can greatly mitigate the risk.
A valued employee is a retained employee. You can show your workers just how much they’re being compensated for their efforts—beyond their base pay—through total reward statements. Expert John Rubino has a few tips for crafting and communicating these compensation reports.
Maybe it’s 20 inches of snow. Maybe it’s an impending hurricane. It could be wildfires, an ice storm that caused a power outage, or flooding. Whatever the specifics, Mother Nature has a whole lot of ways to create havoc and cause businesses to shut down temporarily.
The Pew Research Center estimates that 10,000 Baby Boomers will reach age 65 every day until the year 2030. While the Boomers in your organization may not be planning on retiring anytime soon, now’s the time to begin preparing for this labor exodus.