The FMLA and Hidden Health Conditions
By Susan Schoenfeld, JD The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) can be tricky when an employee wants his or her health condition to remain private.
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.
Proper Training Can Protect Employees from Lead Exposure
Yesterday’s Advisor reviewed the new training requirements for the recently amended Pesticide Worker Protection Standard. Today, we offer some tips for protecting workers in general industry from another dangerous environmental safety hazard—exposure to lead.
Keeping Up With Popular Policies
What happens when your candidate asks about cell phone use, Internet access, and other policies? Have you kept your policies current as the culture changes? In today’s Advisor, attorney Allan H. Weitzman shares guidelines for cutting edge policies. Weitzman, a partner with the Proskauer law firm, offered his tips at the SHRM Annual Conference and […]
Ask the Expert: 1095 Form for Seasonal and Part-Time Workers?
For the tax forms we must issue for the Affordable Care Act (ACA) – do we need to issue them to seasonal employees since they will not be considered full-time employees? Also, can you confirm that we do not have to issue the form to part time employees (working less than 30 hours per week)?
New WPS Training Requirements—Rising to the Challenge
In November 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) amended the Pesticide Worker Protection Standard (WPS). If you’re in an affected industry, it’s a big change. Today we will review the new training requirements for workers and handlers, which is what some say is the hardest part of complying with the amended WPS.
Lunch Breaks Can Give Employers Indigestion
By Michael P. Maslanka, JD The question of whether lunch breaks are compensable recently surfaced in a case from the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals (which covers Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas). The court’s decision is instructive and provides a timely reminder that the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) is fraught with danger.
Ask the Expert: Employee Pay Rules for Weather-Related Closings?
Our office was forced to close for two days due to flooding in our area. How do we handle paying the employees who were scheduled to work on these days? What about the people who had scheduled vacation time and personal hours on these days?
West Virginia Legislature passes right-to-work bill; governor promises veto
by Rodney L. Bean Both houses of West Virginia’s legislature have passed a bill that would make West Virginia the nation’s 26th right-to-work state. The bill arrived at Governor Earl Ray Tomblin’s desk on Monday, February 8, and now awaits his signature or veto. After a February 4 debate that lasted almost five hours, the […]
The Scoop on Team Interviews
Team interviews are becoming a popular interviewing method amongst recruiters and HR managers. Today we’ll take a look at some of the upsides of team interviews and introduce the downsides. Of course you want to hire the best applicant for the job. And you want your hiring processes to help achieve that goal. Many organizations […]
What Does Luck Have to Do with It?
From The Oswald Letter By Dan Oswald CEO, BLR “I’d rather be lucky than good.” Those famous words were uttered by Lefty Gomez, a left-handed pitcher for the New York Yankees who played primarily in the 1930s. Take a minute to let that quote soak in. Would you rather be lucky or good?