New OSHA Requirements Effective August 10, 2016
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) will require employers to submit detailed annual reports workplace injuries and illness for publication online. The new reports will be due to be filed electronically in 2017. OSHA stated that it will cleanse...
New Overtime Regulations from the DOL Wage and Hour Division
Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division Fact Sheet:Final Rule to Update the Regulations Defining and Delimiting the Exemption for Executive, Administrative, and Professional Employees(PDF)In 2014, President Obama directed the Department of Labor to update...
Employer Discrimination Test
Employers need a discrimination prevention checklist. Here it is!
The more questions to which you answer “Yes,” the more you are doing to prevent discrimination based on race, age, religion, national origin, gender, or other protected classes in your workplace in terms of hiring, promotion, and dismissal.
To avoid discrimination in supervisory tasks, do you:
Do You Audit Your Independent Contractor Classifications? Don’t let the IRS or DOL do it!
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued an Administrator’s Interpretation (AI) that seeks to restrict companies from the use of independent contractors. Furthermore it requires employers to reclassify those workers as employees which would...
