As an employer, you may have employees who work in the same classification, have worked for the company for the same amount of time, but for whatever reason are paid different wage rates. You may have completely legal, non-discriminatory reasons for paying different wage rates to similarly situated empl...
The U.S. Department of Labor is now enforcing new regulations governing domestic service employees who provide companionship services to individuals due to their age or because they have an illness, injury, or disability. The Fair Labor Standards Act exempts domestic service workers who provided compani...
Because of the significant number of employment laws and their complexity, compliance can become difficult due to the confusion created by having so many laws. One such confusion faced by many employers revolves around paying employee on a salary basis and the impact that has on paying employees overtim...
One question I get asked with some regularity is whether an employer must pay an employee for time spent working without permission, even if the employee has been told not to do so. It may be an employee who works through a lunch period which is supposed to be unpaid or an employee who begins ...
Minimum wage increases have been a popular topic in the news lately as advocates have been campaigning for minimum wage increases both on state and federal levels. On Election Day 2014, advocates got their way in at least four states: Alaska, Arkansas, Nebraska, and South Dakota. In all four states, vot...
