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by Gary Fealk Workers who qualify as executive, administrative, or professional employees may be exempt from the overtime requirements of the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) if they are paid on a salaried basis or not less than $455 per week. However, if an employee’s basis of compensation isn’t “salaried,” the exemption will be lost. […]
Recruiting has changed regularly over the last few decades. Today we’ll hear from Edward Page, Business Development head of ThisWay Global.
Litigation Value: Class action by day-laborers hired by Dwight = $500,000; penalties for violations of the Immigration Reform and Control Act = $50,000. [Tonight’s entry was authored by Josh Drexler, whom you’ll be hearing more from in the coming year.] While watching last night’s two repeat episodes, I noticed that Dwight Schrute potentially exposed Sabre/Dunder […]
More and more workplaces are offering some form of flexibility in terms of where an employee works. Some organizations have even developed a 100% “virtual” workforce—having no central offices where employees gather and instead allowing all employees to work from home or wherever they happen to be. Other employers have chosen to allow more flexibility […]
What’s your social recruiting strategy? Are you using the same social media sites as last year, and the year before?
The next generation of workers is already on its way, and high school seniors have already formed some pretty concrete opinions around life in the working world. A new CareerBuilder survey looked at how this next generation’s opinions compare to that of the current workforce, and there are some surprising results. One thing they have […]
When turnover rates start increasing, the question on every HR professional’s mind is: Why? Why are employees quitting more now than before? And what can be done about it?
According to Glassdoor’s Q3 2015 Employment Confidence Survey, nearly four in five employees (79%) would prefer new or additional benefits to a pay increase. Specifically, more women (82%) than men (76%) prefer benefits or perks to a pay raise. Additionally, younger employees aged 18 to 34 (89%) and 35 to 44 (84%) prefer benefits or […]
In the 2015 film, The Intern, Robert De Niro plays an 80-year-old widower who discovers that he’s bored with retirement and becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site. In true Hollywood fashion, he becomes the hero of the day and rescues the company’s thirtysomething founder, both in terms of her professional and personal […]
By Stephen Bruce, PhD, PHR Just My E-pinion Special from BLR’s National Employment Law Update How to Manage Intermittent Leave (Is that a Joke?)< Chuckles greeted attorney Jeffrey Wortman when he announced that he’d tell his audience how to manage intermittent leave under the FMLA. He joined in the laughter, but said there are some […]