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Good documentation pays off! Not once but TWO times.
Documentation can save you in court. Document, document, document… it seems often that this is all HR people in the “trench” ever say. Supervisors and managers get tired of hearing it and, face it, we...
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The Employment Law Blog Carnival- It is OSCAR time!
Actually it is not Oscar time, but this carnival has 17 great “Kick-Ass” lines from an assortment of action movies. I have to admit I have seen every one of these movies and recognized each and every...
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Hey Employer don’t look to the USDOL for help
I recently attended a seminar conducted by the law firm Fisher & Phillips. During the presentations attorney Matt Simpson told us about some changes that the US Department of Labor has instituted...
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In the news
News items to be aware of. This post today is a small collection of news items that caught my interest and I wanted you to be aware of them as well. Retaliation claims still the biggest The EEOC issued...
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Events and Trends in Employment Legislation
New legislation, new rules and new decisions will have major effects on employers. I wanted to make you aware of some of the things that are going on in employment legislation around the country. This...
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Fire that employee for complaining about wages at your own peril
Firing an employee for complaining about their wages will violated two laws. Employees have probably complained about wages since there have been wages. As a result laws have been created that protect...
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Report from #SHRM15: The USDOL Causes a Buzz
The morning of the last day of the #SHRM15 conference started with Dr. Oz. I was prepared not to be all that interested in what he had to say, but he was actually pretty interesting. Here are some of...
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Future Friday: Has the future of work been dealt a setback?
Government action may have produced a roadblock on the trip to the future of work. In the past several years there has been a great deal written about the changing world of work. Tom Peter’s talked...
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Future Friday: The coming conflict between flextime and the FLSA
The FLSA and the move to workplace flexibility will be tugging at workers and management. In early July the US Department of Labor announced changes in the Fair Labor Standards Act that will radically...
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Can you discipline an Exempt Employee?
Disciplining exempt employees by docking pay will endanger the exemption. As you might guess the very simple answer is “yes”, but going about this can causes many problems for employers. After all...
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Can a Church ignore the law?
A church went “nuts” over picking pecans. With the subject of religion playing in the news in relation to ignoring a law, now we have another incidence of a church, not an individual, ignoring the law....
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From the Archive: Five acts that violate the overtime provisions of the FLSA
Under the FLSA 40 hours is the gold measure for overtime. With the FLSA being so prominent in the news as we await the final revision on new regulations on exempt employees I thought I would republish...
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Is the Internet destroying the Outside Sales exemption?
Has the nature of your sales jobs changed? With the tool of the Internet a lot of sales are conducted online. I know that I am solicited a lot by emails and phone calls. In the “old days” of sales a...
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Scary and Frightening: The #ELBC Carnival for October
I had no particular theme for this carnival for October, the month of Halloween. Employment law is a scary enough theme. Scary stuff This carnival starts off with Daniel A. Schwartz talking about HR...
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In the news
News items to be aware of. This post today is a small collection of news items that caught my interest and I wanted you to be aware of them as well. Retaliation claims still the biggest The EEOC issued...
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Scary and Frightening: The #ELBC Carnival for October
Sometimes errors are made and you misread things. Actually you read things too fast and come to the wrong conclusion. Well that happened to me. I concluded that the #ELBC Employment Law Blog Carnival...
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Which employment related claim is filed most often?
What are the fast rising types of lawsuits? I helped give a webinar the other day for Blogging4Jobs. Attorney Casey Sipe and I talked about the coming changes in the Fair Labor Standards Act. There are...
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Four Myths about Holiday Pay under the FLSA
What is an employer required to do? As we enter into the holiday time of the year I thought it would be constructive to address some myths about holiday pay. There are a lot of myths and...
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Office parties and nonexempt employees
Having office parties can be problematic In addition to the post yesterday about holiday pay I thought I would address the issue of holiday parties since many of you may be having a holiday party this...
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Wage and Hour lawsuits are on the rise and costly
You need to prepare to avoid the damage of a Wage & Hour lawsuit If you have had the misfortune to be at home during the week and you watched daytime television you have seen the many commercials...
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