Your employee handbook needs to do more than put your company’s benefits, policies, procedures and culture in writing. It also must stand up in court if a lawyer for a disgruntled employee starts to drill down into it. For instance, did you know that if your employee handbook doesn’t have an at-will disclaimer in it, […]
The Dept. of Labor (DOL) is still thinking about updating FLSA overtime rules affecting executive, administrative and professional employees. Based on the Biden administration’s regulatory agenda released on June 21, 2022, several reports indicate the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division is planning a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking for October. However, the DOL has not yet […]
Good news for employers that may be considering permanent telework options for employees: The Dept. of Homeland Security (DHS) is thinking of implementing additional guidelines that would allow for remote document inspection for Form I-9 purposes. In a new proposed rule that the agency posted on the Federal Register, DHS said it’s seeking comment from […]
If there are issues with a company’s policies for payroll recordkeeping and overtime pay, Dept. of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division investigators could come calling. Several employers across the country learned this the hard way – and they were fined by the DOL for their errors. Here’s what tripped them up. Various pay issues […]
Tax withholding can get tricky for your Payroll pros, between federal and state obligations. And in addition to tax withholding on regular employee wages, there are entirely separate guidelines for supplemental wages. This can get particularly complicated if you have employees at your company that receive more than one kind of supplemental wage payment, such […]
The types of compensation that need to be included in employees’ regular rates of pay for overtime purposes can trip up Payroll pros and potentially draw scrutiny from the Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division. A DOL investigation of a warehouse operator and e-commerce distributor shows how important it is for Payroll to […]
Finance could be seeing some changes when filing the next EEO-1 pay data report, thanks to new recommendations from a study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The academies studied the EEO-1 report to see if the info it collects was helpful for correcting pay inequities. While they did find the data […]
The old adage is true: There’s no such thing as a free lunch – and you also can’t use that lunch as payment for employees, even if it’s on a volunteer basis. One location of a popular fast-food franchise learned that the hard way after a promotional opportunity it offered customers went viral recently. A […]
Alert Payroll: The Social Security Administration‘s (SSA) E-Verify mismatch resolution schedule is back to normal as of July 15, 2022. Because of COVID-19 disruptions and lockdowns, SSA adopted some flexibility by allowing more time for workers to take action to resolve a “tentative non-confirmation” (more commonly referred to as a mismatch), where info on a […]
