5 Ways to Retain Talent in the Gig Economy
The gig economy is becoming increasingly popular. It is a free market system in which workers are primarily engaged in temporary work on a freelance basis as opposed to full-time work on a permanent basis.
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What Employee Benefits Are Required by Law?
When it comes to employee benefits, surprisingly few are required by law in the United States. For example, the United States, unlike most other countries, does not mandate that employers provide vacation days, sick days, or maternity or paternity leave.
Benefits of an Effective Tuition Reimbursement Program
When thinking about the benefits at any given company that prospective employees evaluate, varied items like vacation days, 401(k) plans, and gym memberships spring to mind. Of course, there’s a weight to many of these perks: Vacations last at least a certain number of days; gym memberships can go on for years; and 401(k) plans […]
Benefits You May Not Have Considered: Pet-Related Employee Benefits
There are millions of pet owners across the country. This, of course, means that almost all employers have employees who have cherished pets—employees who would likely be happy to have employment benefits that help make pet ownership easier.
Benefits and Pitfalls of Electronic Recordkeeping
In yesterday’s Advisor, attorney Catherine Gray covered the basics of electronic recordkeeping; today, its benefits and pitfalls, a warning about shadow records, plus help with the most basic records of all—job descriptions. Gray, an associate in the Hartford, Connecticut office of Robinson and Cole LLP, delivered her remarks at BLR’s National Employment Law Update recent, […]
Handling Unhealthy Perfectionism in the Workplace—A Guide for Employers
As an employer, you want to encourage the people in your organization to perform to the best of their ability, but when does striving for excellence become an unhealthy obsession with perfection?
5 Things Every CEO Needs to Know About HR
In the past century, Human Resources has evolved from “Welfare Officer” and “Labor Manager” to the modern HR role, often known as “Chief People Officer” or “VP of People.” Even for HR leaders who hold on to the 1980s and 1990s title of “Human Resource Management,” the reality is that today HR leaders are no […]
PBGC Will Assist United Furniture Workers Pension Fund
The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) has approved a partition application and will provide early financial assistance to the United Furniture Workers Pension Fund A, a Nashville-based multiemployer pension plan that covers nearly 10,000 participants.
Can You Demand FMLA Fitness-for Duty-Cert? Sure, BUT …
Many employers want a fitness for duty certification when employees return from FMLA leave, especially for those “certain employees.” You can require a certification, but not just for certain employees, and not without carefully following several procedural steps. First of all, the law says that as a condition of restoring an employee who has been […]
Overtime Rule Update: District Court Won’t Wait for Appeals Court Ruling
A federal district court judge said January 3 that he won’t halt proceedings in the case challenging the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new overtime rules, despite concurrent litigation in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.