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FMLA, already a complex law, may soon get more so. Here’s a program that explains the law now and is designed to keep you informed about how it may differ in the future. As yesterday’s Advisor story on the burgeoning “father-friendly workplace” movement illustrated, the pressure on business to allow employees greater work/life balance is […]
Yesterday’s Advisor offered the first 7 of attorney W. Melvin Haas’s tips for combating FMLA abuse. Today, the rest of his tips, plus an introduction to the book many call “the FMLA Bible.” IHaas is managing member at the Macon, Georgia office of Constangy, Brooks & Smith, LLC. [Go here for tips 1 to 7] […]
by H. Juanita M. Beecher Contractors entering into federal contracts on or after January 1, 2017, must comply with the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) new regulations requiring them to provide workers 56 hours of paid sick leave a year. The regulations implement President Barack Obama’s Executive Order 13706, which was issued on September 7, […]
Low-wage workers in cities across the country carried signs and voiced demands for higher pay last week, but those strikes and similar work stoppages last May differ from traditional walkouts. Unlike in most strikes, the picketers aren’t part of a union although they are getting encouragement from organized labor, especially from the Service Employees International […]
Recruiting Rerouted: Use a GPS Mindset to Drive Your Recruiting Strategy Rebecca Barnes-Hogg, SPHR, SHRM-SCP Before we had GPS systems, if you took a wrong turn and got lost while traveling, you experienced that distressing feeling when you realized you made a mistake. You had to get out a paper map to figure out where […]
California law provides broad protection to employees who are whistleblowers. But how do you know when an employee is blowing the whistle? And what should you do once the whistle has been blown?
The second round of revisions to IRS’ Employee Plans Compliance Resolution System in a week focused on failures in automatic enrollment and escalation in defined contribution retirement plans. The procedural changes from the agency also addressed DC plans’ automatic employee contribution features that experience short-term elective-deferral failures. The procedural changes in Revenue Procedure 2015-28 were released […]
by Sophie E. Zdatny House Bill 99, titled “an act relating to equal pay,” has cleared both chambers of the Vermont Legislature and is set to be signed into law by Governor Peter Shumlin on Tuesday, May 14. The final bill amends Vermont’s Fair Employment Practices Act to provide that an employer may pay different […]
The debut of a new I-9 form brings the opportunity to review some of the basics on handling the document, which has been around since the 1980s. The new form now conforms with regulations issued in 1997 (yes, you’re reading that correctly) and alters the list of documents employees may use to establish their eligibility […]
For employers who have had to deal with hard economic times these past few years, there’s a bit of good news: a California appeal court has rejected an employee’s plea for workers’ compensation benefits stemming from stress over the employer’s poor financial situation and downsizing.