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Obama Signs FMLA Expansion
Conducting a wage and hour audit will help your company correct any violations and ensure they do not occur in the future. Before conducting an audit, employers should make sure that they are familiar with relevant federal and state law. Here are some more tips.
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Compensation Costs Have Risen Slowly Over Last 12 Months
Compensation costs rose 1.2 percent in the private sector from September 2008 to 2009, the smallest percentage change since the Bureau of Labor Statistics began conducting its compensation-costs survey in 1980.
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How will your 2009 holiday party compare with yours in 2008?
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See who's confident that all of their exempt employees are classified correctly under FLSA.
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Most Employers Plan to Unfreeze Salaries within 6 Months
Fifty-four percent of large employers that have frozen salaries say that they will unfreeze them in the next 6 months, up from 33 percent who said the same in August, according to a survey by Watson Wyatt, a consulting firm.
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Top 10 Compensation Stories
The following 10 articles are the most popular among Compensation.BLR.com readers in the last 90 days.
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Dental Plans a Little Long in the Tooth |
Dental plans should be based on three things: research, market demand, and cost, according to Dr. Alan Vogel, national dental director for MetLife. By considering all three, he says, the typical dental plan could save money and provide a better product for patients.
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Compensation Q&A
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Should voluntary group life insurance be included in the calculation and added as additional earnings onto the employees gross wages at the end of the year?
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HR Challenge®: Withholding
The maximum amount of earnings subject to the Social Security tax (taxable maximum) in 2009 is $106,800. What is the maximum in 2010?
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Compensation Hot Topic: Company Closure During Holidays
An HR Forum member is asking how an employer should treat the compensation of exempt employees when the company is closed during the week of December 28.
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Odd Jobs
Job Title: Under Cutter
National Average Salary: 18.57 per hour (June 2005 data)
Not to worry--these individuals aren't looking to "undermine" anyone's work. Under cutters operate machinery to cut along the face or seams of coal mines, stone quarries, or other mining surfaces to facilitate blasting, separating, or removing materials from mines or the earth's surface.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: Take Action Now
On January 29, 2009, President Obama signed the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into law. BLR's expert legal and editorial staffs have carefully reviewed the Act, and they have created a plain-English overview that tells you what you need to know and do.
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A Note to Readers
On October 28, 2009, President Obama signed legislation that made several changes to the family military leave provisions of the FMLA. For example, the legsilation expands the exigency leave benefits to include family members of active duty service members. Under the "old" law, only family members of National Guard members and reservists were eligible for "exigency leave." The legislation makes other changes as well. Please see the news article Obama Signs FMLA Expansion for more information. If you are a subscriber to Compensation.BLR.com, you can read the updated FMLA anlaysis for a more detailed look at the changes.
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