Auditing Your Wage and Hour Compliance
Businesses should give consideration to auditing their wage and hour compliance on a regular basis. What can your organization do to get ahead of this massive mobilization? The most effective course is to conduct an internal audit before the DOL shows up at your door. An audit will enable an employer to identify compliance concerns and change any practices that might present an unacceptable risk of liability. If you are interested in reading more about wage and hour compliance link to the full article below.
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Exempt vs. Nonexempt: Most Confusing Wage/ Hour Issue
Determining whether employees are exempt or nonexempt is the most confusing wage and hour issue, according to a recent BLR poll. While this area of employment law is complex, it’s important for employers to make sure they are classifying workers correctly, especially given the rise in wage and hour claims.
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Human Capital Management
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Your Company’s Compliance With Wage/Hour? Not Likely
DOL recently announced that it will change dramatically how it regulates employers’ compliance with certain federal laws. Within the next year, it will issue regulations requiring employers to take affirmative steps to ensure compliance with federal wage-and-hour, safety, and anti-discrimination laws.
W. Garnett & Associates
Human Capital Management
1-303-658-9342
Employer Obligations to Temporary Workers
Since a host employer often exercises control over temps regarding daily tasks, working hours or similar conditions of employment, it can become a joint employer under various laws.
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Exemptions – Are There Overtime Exceptions?
The Fair Labor Standards Act (”FLSA”) requires that an employer pay employees overtime — at least one and a half times the employee’s base pay — for all hours worked in excess of forty (40) hours in one workweek. However, certain employees are “exempt” from the FLSA’s overtime mandate if the employee meets certain federally-mandated requirements. For an employee to be considered exempt, there are three tests that the employee must meet.
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A Big Danger To Employers – FLSA
The longer the problem is ignored, the worse it gets. Here’s why: Take several minutes of unpaid work a day, multiply it by a population of hundreds of workers, let damages accumulate over several years, and double the wage loss. And that’s just the beginning. Don’t forget plaintiffs’ costs, and the company’s time spent defending claims. See how easily a simple, seemingly innocent wage and hour violation can ignite a litigation explosion?
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Human Capital Management
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Changing Workplace Habits Can Eliminate FLSA Risks
Old habits are hard to change and new ones are hard to establish. But that’s just what is needed if employers want to put the major risk of Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) liability behind them for the long term.
In many organizations, it’s common for employees to work through lunch, attend midday meetings where a meal is provided, or take training courses on their own time.
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Human Capital Management
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Protect You and Your Employees From Overtime Violations
Under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), administered by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division, hourly employees must be paid overtime at time-and-a-half for working more than 40 hours in a workweek. Overtime pay may not be waived by any agreement between you and your workers.
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Human Capital Management
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Working Off-the-Clock Can Be Costly
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) recently made major back wage recoveries from two Florida employers for work performed by hourly employees outside of their regular shifts.
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Human Capital Management
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Wage and Hour Claims Hits The Healthcare Industry
The stakes are even higher for healthcare employers. Wage and hour class actions targeting hospitals and other healthcare employers have literally exploded over the past several years, increasing by 35 percent between 2008 and 2009 alone. That number is expected to double this year.
W. Garnett & Associates
Human Capital Management
1-888-884-3910
