Category: HR Management & Compliance
There are dozens of details to take care of in the day-to-day operation of your department and your company. We give you case studies, news updates, best practices and training tips that keep your organization fully in compliance with ever-changing employment law, and you fully aware of emerging HR trends.
Retaliation: Can We Discipline Someone Who Is under an “Umbrella of Protection”?
Occasionally we have an employee we would like to discipline (or fire outright), but the employee has recently done something that leaves us open to a retaliation charge if we take action against them-like making a discrimination complaint, requesting FMLA leave, or talking to OSHA about safety issues. Right now, we have a manager who […]
Volunteers: Do You Have to Pay an Employee Who Does Volunteer Work for Your Organization?
Travel Time: Wild Ride for Theme Park Employees Doesn’t End in Payoff
Enforcement: DOL Collects $166 Million in Back Wages in 2005; Off-the-Clock Violators Beware
Governor Proposes Boosting Minimum Wage
Wage and Hour Violations: Is Remedy for Denying Meal Period a Penalty or Wages? Courts Can’t Agree
Employee Breaks: Meal Period Proposal Lapses—and Lawsuit Risk Continues
IBM Sued For Underpaying Computer Employees
Day Laborer Wage Concerns Highlighted In New Study
Forty-nine percent of day laborers polled for a new study said that an employer denied wages for work they completed in the previous two months. In the study, “On the Corner: Day Labor in the United States,” 48 percent of day laborers said that an employer underpaid them during the same time period; 44 percent […]