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New overtime regulations can cause a shakeup in the workplace—and HR professionals must be prepared to handle employee concerns. Employees may have certain issues with being transitioned from exempt to nonexempt, and BLR® Legal Editor Susan Prince, JD, MSL, has advice for helping employees navigate these worries.
When it comes to career development, employees want to be able to steer—but they also know that they can’t do it all by themselves. Employers must still provide training, and managers should know how to provide advice and guide employees’ advancement.
When I was a little boy, I had a book that was filled with pictures of heavy equipment. Like many boys, I was fascinated by the large bulldozers, cranes, and trucks. There was one piece of equipment that intrigued me because I had never seen anything like it. It was a grab dredger.
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. Some businesses and industries may be impacted more than others—how will the proposed wage increases affect your company?
On April 19, 2016, the Los Angeles, California city council voted in favor of a proposed ordinance that would provide 6 days of paid sick leave per year to Los Angeles employees. The City Attorney has been given several weeks to draft an ordinance.
A recent California decision serves as a reminder to employers that the landscape of disability discrimination is quite complex. When an employer evaluates an employee’s disability, the legal consequences of a factual mistake—even an honest mistake—will be borne by the employer.
The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has released data regarding the number of workplace fatalities for 2014, the most recent numbers available. The good news is the number of Californians who died on the job decreased from the previous year.
It’s been a common question in California courts—when should a worker be classified as an independent contractor? Drivers for ride-hailing giant Uber will continue to be independent contractors under the terms of a settlement of class-action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts if the settlement receives court approval.
As an employer, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave can be tricky to administer. After all, employers have competing goals: They want to meet their legal obligation to employees (and likely have a desire to help employees get through the situation they’re in, which is necessitating the leave), but they also want to […]
In the case of Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to care for a family member, once the employer has determined whether an individual employee is eligible for FMLA leave, many times the next hurdle is determining if the family member is covered by the FMLA. This determination has become somewhat more complicated as […]