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Recently, there has been an uptick in the number of business transactions in the marketplace. From a legal perspective, employee benefits issues are often a key element of any business transaction. Everything from employee pay, retention, and bonus payments to 401(k), pensions, and fringe benefits is “on the table” as the parties negotiate terms. Of […]
Question: We have an employee who lives and works out of one state but does work for our office in another state and travels to that office a couple times of month. Do we withhold taxes for the state the employee lives and primarily works in or for the state he often travels to for […]
What steps do you take to resolve conflicts among employees? Do you find the process effective? Do your employees have a plan to resolve conflict in their teams? Here is a simple 8-step conflict resolution process that you and your employees can use to resolve any type of workplace conflict.
As stay-at-home restrictions ease in the coming months across the United States, businesses will begin to reopen, and many employees will return to their workplaces. While the health and safety of employees and customers will be the top priority, how employees are transitioned back will also be vital to successfully resume operations.
One of the few guarantees in business, as with life, is that there will always be roadblocks, obstacles, stumbles, and setbacks. Plans don’t always work out as expected, goals aren’t always reached, and the competition sometimes prevails.
As employers continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) has released new guidance that attempts to answer questions related to employee pay and leave time.
Generative AI has been a game-changer in so many areas of society. Employment in particular has been an area of rapid AI adoption. It’s no secret to candidates that employers are leveraging AI in screening large volumes of job applicants, and it’s no secret to employers that candidates are using AI to update resumes and […]
One of the keys to this determination is comparing the cost of providing the meals to the revenue the operation brings in. There are “direct” and “indirect” costs, the latter of which do not go toward the calculation of the cost-to-revenue ratio that determines whether you are providing a de minimis benefit (and therefore one […]
by Dan Oswald I have the always desirable but elusive teamwork on my mind as I write this. The dictionary defines it this way: “cooperative or coordinated effort on the part of a group of persons acting together as a team or in the interests of a common cause.” There’s a lot in that definition. […]
We all understand that filing a discrimination charge with a government agency is protected activity, but one employee recently claimed that withdrawing such a charge is also protected. Read on to see how the court responded to that novel approach.