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√ Audit compensation classifications and policies √ Implement arbitration agreements The New Year is a time for fresh starts – diets, exercise programs and wonderful sounding self-improvement programs. This is great – but in your quest for improvement, don’t forget about your business! While resolutions to audit employee classifications and compensation policies and to adopt…
Read MoreFear, emotionally charged perspectives on the Trump administration’s immigration policy and deeply embedded religious views are all topics ripe for disagreements possibly escalating into use of slurs, threats and insults. The workplace, where many of us spend the majority of our weekdays, is one place where these agreements may percolate to a dangerous boiling point.…
Read More1. Employee Classification As employers are aware, the dreaded U.S. Department of Labor Rule changes which would have required overtime payments to many employees now classified as exempt, are frozen in legal limbo following an injunction preventing the implementations of those rules. Although an expedited appeal of the lower court’s injunction is moving forward, the…
Read MoreA federal judge in Sherman, Texas has issued a preliminary injunction which operates nation-wide to bar the Department of Labor’s minimum salary rule for certain white collar exemptions from going into effect. Employers have been bracing for drastic changes to their pay practices and exempt/non-exempt job classifications due to a DOL regulation finalized this summer…
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