Jan 3, 2022 | Benefits, Compliance, Employees, Employers, Human Resources, Labor Laws
Employers are continuing to evolve with the pandemic and trying to find new ways to attract and retain employees. During this difficult time, employers are faced with a tight labor market, so the question arises: do we allow our workers to work out of state? While the...
Sep 22, 2015 | Labor Laws
The Department of Labor has for the second year in a row awarded grants to states to attack worker misclassification. This year, ten million dollars ($10,000,000.00) has been awarded to 23 states. The Department states that these grants are to be used to “increase...
Jul 31, 2015 | Labor Laws
It’s not just the overtime changes that the DOL is looking at this summer. As many of you may know, the big talk in HR circles is about the changes that the DOL have proposed to the minimum compensation requirements of the white-collar exempt statuses. Well the DOL...
Oct 21, 2014 | Labor Laws
Lawsuits filed under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) hit another record high in 2014, according to information from Seyfarth Shaw law firm. The number of federal wage-and-hour lawsuits for the period of April 1, 2013, to March 31, 2014 (the Federal Judicial...
