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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.
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IRS Answers Questions on COBRA Subsidy Program
The Internal Revenue Service has released more guidance on the program offering a subsidy for COBRA continuation premiums to workers who are involuntarily terminated.
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Is Pay for Performance Finally Working?
Leading researcher and consultant David Creelman says he first began hearing about pay for performance at least 20 years ago. Finally, for the first time, he relates client companies have been telling him for the last 2 years that it works and works well. What changed?
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This Week's Poll
Have the number of employees who smoke at your organization decreased in the past 5 years?
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Last Week's Poll
Have the new FMLA regs made it easier to handle leave of absence requests?
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Is Your RIF Plan Airtight? Check It Out
Let's say you need to lay off a significant number of your employees, you've consulted with managers about what positions to eliminate, and you have a list in hand of those slated for termination. But as an HR pro, you're somewhere between a bit worried and absolutely terrified that this reduction in force will come back to haunt the company.
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HR Pros Support 90% Tax on Bonuses at Bailout Firms
Most HR and compensation professionals support a proposed 90 percent tax on bonuses that go to highly paid employees at federal bailout recipients, according to a survey 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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Watch Out for HIPAA Changes in ARRA
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Just when you thought you’d mastered the COBRA changes in the economic stimulus package signed by President Obama on February 17, 2009—here come changes to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, or HIPAA.
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Compensation Q&A
Questions from our Ask the Experts archives
Can I have an exempt employee fill in for a nonexempt employee after her normal shift is over and pay her on an hourly basis for added hours worked as a nonexempt person?
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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: Communicating Wage Freeze
An HR Forum subscriber is asking colleagues for advice on how to communicate a wage increase freeze.
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Odd Jobs
Job Title: Quahogger
National Average Salary: $11.63 per hour (June 2005 data)
Caution: If you take this job, your hands might get clammy.
Classified as a fishing occupation, a Quahogger harvests quahogs, an edible clam with a hard shell found along the Atlantic Coast of North America.
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
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