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Tough Economic Times Raise FLSA Questions for Employers
The Department of Labor recently answered an employer's question about whether an organization can require exempt employees to stay home or leave work early during periods of insufficient work and deduct the non-work time from the employees' accrued paid time-off (PTO) accounts without jeopardizing their exempt status.
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25 Fastest-Growing Occupations
America’s Career InfoNet identifies the occupations that are projected to “grow the fastest” in the coming years across all industries.
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This Week's Poll
Have the new FMLA regs made it easier to handle leave of absence requests/issues?
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Last Week's Poll
Do you think a 90% tax on bonuses to highly paid employees at bailout recipients is a good idea?
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Proven Strategies for Avoiding the Newest Wage-Hour Nightmare
Have you updated your travel policies in recent years?
Plaintiffs’ attorneys are scrambling in this challenging economy to exploit every possible angle for filing new wage and hour lawsuits on behalf of disgruntled employees. Their latest target? Travel pay disputes.
These claims are being filed in droves. Travel pay rules can prove very confusing for even the most experienced managers and HR professionals.
Join us on April 16 for an in-depth audio conference all about travel pay.
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EEOC’s Comp-Time Policy Faulted
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s (EEOC) practice of giving time off to employees who worked extra hours was insufficient for some employees, an arbitrator ruled.
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Poll: FMLA Is #1 Employment Law Headache
Far and away, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) causes bigger headaches for human resource professionals than any other federal employment-related law, according to a recent poll on HR.BLR.com and Compensation.BLR.com.
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Top 10 Compensation Stories
The following 10 articles are the most popular among Compensation.BLR.com readers in the past 90 days.
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Stimulus Act Restricts Comp Practices of Financial Institutions
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The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, signed into law by President Obama on February 17, restricts the executive compensation practices of financial firms that have or will receive funds from the federal government’s Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP). But what affects only financial institutions today could affect nonfinancial companies tomorrow. Therefore, these restrictions on pay practices should be carefully examined.
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Compensation Q&A
Questions from our Ask the Experts archives
I have an employee who terminated involuntarily in February 2009, and we agreed to pay his COBRA premium in full for 3 months. When he starts paying COBRA on his own, is he eligible for the new COBRA subsidy or is he no longer eligible because he did not assume the subsidy effective March 1?
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HR Challenge®: Exempt Personnel
Can an employer require exempt employees to use accrued vacation time during a plant shutdown of less than a workweek without affecting their exempt status, according to the Department of Labor?
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Compensation Hot Topic: Deductions from Final Paycheck
An HR Forum subscriber wants to verify whether their organization can deduct for a negative PTO balance from an employee's final paycheck.
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Odd Jobs
Job Title: Dagger
National Average Salary: $15.52 per hour (June 2005 data)
If you want the job of dagger, you have to be sharp. The Department of Labor classifies the dagger among paint and paint spraying machine operators.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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FLSA: Wage & Hour Self-Audit Guide
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Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act: Take Action Now
On Jan. 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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