New ‘Day’ Commemorates New ‘Reverse Gender Gap’
An economist has highlighted the discovery of a “reverse gender gap” when it comes to workers’ commuting times. He has also declared April 14 to be “Equal Commute Day.”
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Nebraska Employers Shouldn’t Scoff When Employees Want Pay to Don and Doff
By Bonnie M. Boryca Employees often rely on the Nebraska Wage Payment and Collection Act (WPCA) when they bring claims for unpaid back wages and withheld compensation. The WPCA guarantees a lot of rights for employees—but can it form the basis for class claims alleging unpaid wages for the time workers spent donning and doffing […]
Ask the Expert: Must We Pay for Travel Time to Workers’ Comp Hearing?
A worker had a work comp hearing in a different city than where he works (about a 2 hour drive). He is asking us to pay him for the time he couldn’t work because he had to travel and attend the work
Arbitration: California Truck Drivers Compelled to Arbitrate Wage Claims
By Michael Futterman, J.D. and Jaime Touchstone, J.D. Performance Team Freight Systems is a motor carrier company involved in warehousing, shipping, and distributing merchandise from the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles to locations throughout California. Performance Team retained truck drivers as “independent contractors” to transport goods. From 2012 to 2014, a number of […]
Survey: Pay Hikes Will Spread to More Companies Even as Profit Growth Stalls
“Wage and salary increases are becoming more widespread, according to panelists in the January 2016 NABE Business Conditions Survey, even as sales growth and hiring at their firms flatten, and they trim their expectations for expansion in the overall economy,” says National Association of Business Economics (NABE) President Lisa Emsbo-Mattingly, director of research in the […]
DOL’s New Overtime Regs Advance
by Tammy Binford The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed rule greatly expanding the number of workers eligible for overtime pay has been submitted to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) for review, a necessary step before the rule can be finalized.
2016’s Highly Recruited Roles
Yesterday we explored Randstad’s projections for the hottest jobs in 2016. Today we provide more in-demand jobs in the IT, manufacturing and logistics, and office and administration fields.
Healthy Employees Make Healthy Businesses
In yesterday’s Advisor, we explored a recent survey that suggested that wellness programs help your employees stay engaged and productive. Today we’ll take a look at a few benefits for creating a wellness program and the basic steps it takes to start one in your workplace.
Follow-up McCutchen ruling shrinks plan recovery
A federal district court in Pennsylvania denied a large part of US Airways’ attempted recovery from the estate of plan participant James McCutchen, citing inconsistencies between the company’s plan document and summary plan description. If a plan’s official plan document states that its language trumps that of the SPD, the plan should not assert rights […]
Effort to push California minimum wage to $15 reported
Most California employers will see the state’s minimum wage reach $15 an hour by 2022 if reports of a deal in the state legislature materialize as expected. Reports in the Los Angeles Times and The Sacramento Bee on March 27 tell of a tentative deal between state lawmakers and union leaders that would phase in […]