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The Complexities of the New Health Law
The new Affordable Care Act has a lot of moving parts. Whether to offer insurance isn’t the biggest issue for many large employers as they...
The Complexities of the New Health Law
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Are You Aware of the Importance of a Wage and Hour Audit?
How aware is you Human Resource department about the importance of a Wage and Hour audit? A wage and hour audit reduces the likelihood that...
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Preventing Wage and Hour Lawsuits
How familiar are your managers with the regulation around Wage and Hour compliance? The easiest and most direct way to avoid becoming one of these...
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Fair Labor Standards Act – Record Numbered Files
Not being familiar with federal Fair Labor Standards Act can place the company in imminent danger. Among the reasons why the increases will continue is...
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Small Business Owners And Workplace Laws
Are you aware of your responsibilities when it comes to supervising your employees? All employees have basic rights in the workplace — including the right...
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What Is The Department Of Homeland Security (ICE) Doing In Your Region?
How en forceful is your regional office inspecting Form I-9 documents? In addition, the Inspector General found that some regional offices, such as Denver and...
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Employers Should Be Aware Of Their Responsibilities When Performing Background Checks
What is your company’s responsibilities when performing candidate background checks? When making personnel decisions – including hiring, retention, promotion, and reassignment – employers sometimes want...
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How Aware Are You With Wage and Hour Requirements?
Wage and hour requirement are critical to the success of your company. In the past few years, we have seen a radical increase in the...
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When Should Companies Consider Outsource HR Support?
Federal and State compliance regulations requires companies to consider outsource HR for certain employee areas. Solopreneurs don’t need a lot of human resources advice. Once...
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Is Your Company Ready For An Immigration Compliance Audit?
Immigration audits are the responsibility of senior management, are you ready? New employees routinely complete these additional fields. And why not? After all, this is...
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Remaining Labor Compliant with Todays Workforce
How have company leadership positioned the business to remain labor compliant? Keeping a small organization compliant with labor regulations is challenging. But when you multiply...
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How To Avoid Expensive Problems With the Wage-Hour Division
Wage-hour compliance continues to be a pressing challenge for businesses, and recent developments make things even more “interesting” for responsible executives and managers. Courts have...
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Are You Prepared For a Wage and Hour Investigation?
Every company must have a process in place to address employee Wage and Hour Compliance. Compliance with wage and hour laws can be difficult for...
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Do You Know The Immigration Requirements for Your Company?
All U. S. companies have to comply with the federal requirements around the form I-9. The Form I-9 is for the purpose of Employment Eligibility Verification...
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A Good Practice For All Franchisors To Consider
The company’s liability with a Franchise system can be devastating and one Franchise system is doing something about it. The Subway franchise system has taken...
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North Carolina Restaurant Suited for Sexual Harassment
Are your managers aware of how to handle and report claims of Sexual Harassment? A group of Winston-Salem restaurateurs has agreed to pay $25,000 to...
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Sexual Harassment is Lacking in Small Businesses
Small companies must align themselves with HR support to address all workplace issues. There are many different types of discriminatory practices that happen within the...
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Smartphones Will Impact Companies FLSA Risks
Company management has to be aware of what their employees are doing with technology during non-work hours. While a connected workforce certainly could result in...
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Age Discrimination Is Still An Issue In The Workplace
How will age discrimination affect your company’s workplace? The number of age discrimination complaints filed annually with the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC,...
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Lakewood’s Ludvik Electric Was Visited By The Department of Labor
Who within your company is keeping their focus on the Fair Labor Standards Act? The agency said Ludvik Electric, a large electrical contractor in Colorado...
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Keep Your Eyes on OHSA, They Are Lerking In Our Area
Businesses in the area have to keep their eyes open for all of the governmental agencies both state and federal. Federal workplace regulators have proposed...