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By Tammy Binford, Contributing Editor
The COVID-19 pandemic that has sent the nation’s unemployment rate soaring may eventually—at least in some cases—affect employers’ unemployment insurance tax rates. Just who will be affected, though, remains an open question.
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By Patricia Heyen, Womble Bond Dickinson (US) LLP
Companies using unpaid volunteer programs in the ordinary course of business should pay attention to this case because its analysis can help them determine whether their “volunteers” truly meet the volunteer test.
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By Bridget Miller, Contributing Editor
Have you heard of the acronym FARM as it relates to compensation?
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By Consuela A. Pinto, Shareholder, Fortney & Scott, LLC
Pay equity has put compensation and Human Resources managers in the hot seat for some time. Hopefully, they have gotten comfortable with being the center of attention because the focus on pay equity isn’t going away—at least not anytime soon.
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Perhaps you remember a time when the holiday bonus was a guarantee and when organizations shared their financial success with their workers with surprise bonuses. While that does still occur in some organizations, it is far from ubiquitous.
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By Jason R. Mau, Parsons Behle & Latimer
Q. We have a nonexempt employee who sent an e-mail requesting time off in lieu of pay for overtime hours he already worked. Are we allowed to grant his request?
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By Keith Moorman, Frost Brown Todd, LLC
After an employer changed the terms of an employee bonus plan, a misunderstanding developed and led to a finding that the employees’ claimed wages hadn’t been “agreed upon,” resulting in rejection of their wage and hour suit.
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