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Friday, April 20, 2018

Voluntary Benefits: More Employers Planning to Offer Student Loan Repayment and Financial Planning

Voluntary benefits are a great way to attract and retain talent, but are you offering the right ones? A new survey, released by Willis Towers Watson, highlights the ...

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Kansas Court: Nail Technicians Misclassified as Independent Contractors

Recently, the Kansas Court of Appeals affirmed a finding from a district court and the Kansas Department of Labor (KDOL) that nail technicians at a salon are employees rather than independent contractors for unemployment tax contribution purposes.

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Thursday, April 19, 2018

Be Aware of Common Mistakes in Employee Retirement Plans

Employee benefits and retirement plans must comply with various laws and regulations to maintain their tax-qualified status. Some errors that can cause a plan to lose its tax-qualified status may occur in the underlying plan document.

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Wednesday, April 18, 2018

Is Travel Time Compensable for Technicians Paid on an Hourly Basis?

As we previously reported, last week the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued its first Opinion Letters in 9 years. Important questions were addressed regarding ...

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Equal Pay: #MeToo Is Not Just About Sexual Harassment

The #MeToo movement has focused on sexual harassment in the workplace, but employers should be cognizant of another major gender issue that has been the focus of regulatory agencies in recent years—equal pay.

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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

DOL Issues First Opinion Letters in 9 Years, Provides Clarity on FMLA and FLSA Matters

As we previously reported, last June the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it would reinstate the use of Opinion Letters, an interpretive practice that had been replaced by the issuance of Administrator Interpretations during the Obama years.

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Beware of Bonus Pitfalls: Overtime and Nonexempt Employees

I received a call recently from an employer that wanted to know if it could exclude a newly created job category from an annual bonus program. The employer ...

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