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Please Sue Me 2016

HR Daily Advisor

Fifty percent of the decisions he or she makes relating to those tasks took less than 9 minutes, and only 12 percent of those decisions took more than 1 hour. The Harvard Business Review of March 2016 finds that the best forecasters constantly reassess and share their estimates. Train your managers. Think It Through.

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Don’t let this be the year that your business faces a big wage and hour lawsuit

The Employer Handbook

” Send Off. Today, for the myriad retweets and mentions that they give me on Twitter, I want to give a timely shout out to my friends at Seyfarth Shaw’s Workplace Class Action Blog and share with all of you suckers that a summary of their 2016 Workplace Class Action Report is now available.

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The gender pay gap: How equal pay starts with hiring

Homebase

The gender wage gap refers to the difference in earnings between men and women. Experts have calculated this gap in multiple ways, but they all point to the same conclusion. Women consistently earn less than men, the gap is wider for most women of color , and we have a long way to go. Table of Contents What is the gender pay gap?

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Are paralegals entitled to overtime under the FLSA? Probably.

The Employer Handbook

So, I asked the audience, which was comprised of most generalists, how many often worked more than 40 hours per workweek? Then, I asked how many were paid overtime for working over 40 hours per workweek. The FLSA requires that employees receive minimum wage of not less than $7.25 And then we got to the Fair Labor Standards Act.

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Compliance Issues, #MeToo Movement Impact Employers

HRWatchdog

According to the survey, 42 percent of respondents instituted changes prior to the 2016 federal overtime rule’s injunction ; 40 percent are reviewing job descriptions to verify current employees’ classifications; and 36 percent are auditing employee compensation to identify affected workers.

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What your business can do NOW to prepare for the DOL ‘Blacklisting’ rules and guidance.

The Employer Handbook

However, by Halloween next year, just about any federal contractor or subcontractor with a contract valued at $500,000 (except for subcontracts for commercial-off-the-shelf products) will have to comply with these rules. In 2014, President Obama signed the Fair Pay and Safe Workplaces Executive Order. There are other pitfalls too.

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The Devastating Result of a Single Word

HR Daily Advisor

A car wash company provided its employees with a handbook setting forth its employment policies. The handbook was written in both English and Spanish, it required arbitration of employment disputes, and it denied an employee’s right to bring an action under the California Private Attorneys General Act (PAGA). A Nice Clean Job.