Austin HR’s Cofounder, David Hughen, is hosting a 9th year of Career Transitions – a free to the public five week session, designed to help Austin area professionals who are considering their ‘next’. This program is made available as a gift to...
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires certain employers to submit a report categorizing their employees by race or ethnicity, gender, and job category. This demographic survey, called the EEO-1, is due by March 31. All employers with 100 or more...
This topic comes up more often than not. In fact, we still come across handbooks that have polices prohibiting employees from discussing their wages and repercussions for doing so include termination. Prohibitions of this nature infringe upon employees’...
This topic is one that we continually receive questions on so we feel compelled to post information regularly on exempt and non-exempt status considerations. You can use the search bar on our site under the news tab to review past posts if you’d like to read...
The Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) mandates that all employers with more than 10 employees—except those in exempt low-risk industries—maintain a record of work-related injuries and illnesses. Those who are required to maintain these records...
The Department of Labor (DOL) recently adopted a new test for unpaid interns. Employers should use this test—called the primary beneficiary test—when determining if a worker can be properly classified as an unpaid intern or if they need to be classified as an employee...
