If an employee works more than 40 hours in a typical work week, are you required to pay them overtime? Unfortunately, the answer is far from cut and dry – and yet the stakes are so high because failure to pay that employee their time-and-a-half can leave you on the hook for paying a whole […]
In surveys of employment satisfaction and loyalty, feeling valued by your employer and achieving a work-life balance are almost uniformly at the top of the list. The good news? There is one thing that you can tinker with to boost your scores on both metrics: The types of benefits that you offer. For example, in […]
It’s difficult to escape news coverage about the upcoming election these days. It dominates CNN, interrupts regular programming, and is front and center on most social media platforms and likely a topic of discussion (some more contentious than others) at the nation’s dinner tables. To some degree, it’s inevitable that some political talk will spill […]
When this blog first launched, we dedicated quite a few column inches to what businesses should do to integrate Generation Y, the cohort of folks born between 1984 and 1996 that were dusting off their degrees and rapidly entering the workforce. When we wrote these posts, we focused on how tech savvy this generation, which are also […]
Typically, when an employee goes to a business owner with an accommodation request, all they really see is the dollar signs. Adding standing desks for an employee with a back injury, a lactation room for a new mom, or updating your computer screens to reduce eye strain are generally all big money endeavors, but can […]
Stores are stripped of toilet paper and there’s not a bottle of hand sanitizer in sight. The news cycle is dominated by world maps with increasingly scary colors and numbers, while the hospitality industry is in flux as folks cancel their cruises and prepare to hunker down. The issue? A novel strain of an old […]
We all like to think that we’re safe at work. After all, we’re all coming to work with the shared goal of getting the job done and getting back home safely to our families. Sadly, research from the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) suggests that approximately 2 million workers report experiencing violence in their […]
Way back at the end of last year, Trump signed into law a bill that included one of the biggest overhauls to the way we manage retirement planning in the US. In particular, the Setting Every Community Up for Retirement Enhancement (SECURE) Act of 2019, which was enacted as part of the broader Further Consolidated […]
Every now and again, a story will hit the headlines about a company that has been the victim of a cyber security breach and a little piece of us thinks “how could they be so careless?” However, as this article proves, when it comes to cybercrime, no company is truly immune to the problem, with […]
Last fall, the US Department of Labor issued a final rule that just went into effect on the first of this year that would raise the minimum salary threshold that workers must be paid in order to be exempt from overtime requirements. The measure, which modified the Fair Labor Standards Act we all know and […]
