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A new type of “starter” retirement savings account for smaller balances that’s backed by the federal government but administered by employers was promised by President Barack Obama in his 2014 State of the Union address on Jan. 28. The president said he would use an Executive Order to direct the U.S. Treasury Department on Jan. […]
If you’re a Connecticut employer with more than 75 employees, you’ll have to fill out an FMLA Report with the Department of Labor this year. But if you planned on downloading the form from the CT DOL page early, you may have noticed that the dates on the Annual Family & Medical Leave Experience Report […]
The California Supreme Court is expected to release its long-awaited decision in Brinker Restaurant Group v. Superior Court of San Diego on April 12 or 13. Finally: Firm guidance on how to properly handle your meal and rest breaks in California!
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) has issued a new fact sheet addressing reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) for attorneys with disabilities. The new publication is available on the agency’s website. According to the EEOC, one goal of the fact sheet is to dispel the myth that disabled lawyers who […]
The economy may have slowly crept back up last year (as ABC News writes here; see also the Jan. 6 economic report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics), but that doesn’t mean that everything is rebounding. A new analysis by actuarial firm Milliman shows that the funding deficit for 100 of the largest pension plans […]
Labor Day is here, and with it, the unofficial end to summer. In today’s issue, we catch you up on the most popular content on the HR Daily Advisor from the past few months. Get ready for fall with your essential summer reading list: When Two Employees Hate Each Other What do you do when […]
California employers have been looking forward to a new regulation that would add some flexibility to the law requiring meal and rest breaks for employees. But the wait will be longer than anticipated.
With the economic slowdown, if you’re tempted to ask employees to take time off to cut costs and avoid layoffs, you probably won’t have legal problems with nonexempt, nonunion employees, but use caution when it comes to exempt workers. Under the wage and hour laws, you can’t dock the pay of exempt employees, because they […]
Employers and plan administrators that find the over-the-counter drug rules put in place by the health care reform law to be onerous may have relief, if the Ways and Means Committee has its way. The committee on May 31 in a 24-9 vote ordered H.R. 5842, the Restoring Access to Medication Act, reported to the […]