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Is addiction a disability under the ADA?

Business Management Daily

An amendment to the ADA also settled the ongoing question of whether an employee who can compensate for a disability through drugs or other aids qualifies as disabled. The law determined that for the purpose of determining whether someone is disabled, ameliorating devices beyond ordinary eyeglasses should be ignored.

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Your Action Plan for the DOL’s New Overtime Rules

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Conversely, an executive or manager earning less than the minimum salary for exemption would have to be compensated for time worked over 40 hours a week. On May 18, the Department of Labor unveiled new rules significantly altering the wages test for the first time since 2004. So What Is Changing? Identify potential changes.

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HR, Legal Experts Discuss Overtime’s Future

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Edelstein interjected with an important reminder—“documentation should be the lifeblood of HR.” Document any conversation regarding pay, whether you’re discussing raises, adjustments, reclassifications—whatever it may be, err on the side of caution. Whenever an employee brings up compensation, even casually, document that too.

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Recordkeeping for the Newly Nonexempt Effective December 1, 2016

HR Daily Advisor

Such records include payroll records, work certificates, collective bargaining agreements, and individual employment contracts. Supplementary records—documents serving as the source documents for other payroll records maintained by an employer—must be preserved for at least 2 years. Additional Resources. Prince, J.D.,

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Walmart to Pay $7.5 Million to Settle Same-Sex Benefits Discrimination Suit

HR Daily Advisor

In 2004, the same year same-sex marriage was legalized in Massachusetts, Irene married her wife, “Nicole,” also a Walmart associate. million to compensate current and former employees affected by its former policy, which was changed to include same-sex benefits on January 1, 2014. and an editor of Massachusetts Employment Law Letter.