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Best Practices for Hosting Company-Wide Meetings
In a company-wide meeting, businesses can increase company alignment, foster loyalty, enhance employee retention, and build a stronger team. Unsurprisingly, these all-hands meetings have been correlated with achieving faster company growth. Depending on the format you...
Best Practices for Hosting Company-Wide Meetings
In a company-wide meeting, businesses can increase company alignment, foster loyalty, enhance employee retention, and build a stronger team. Unsurprisingly, these all-hands meetings have been correlated with achieving faster company growth. Depending on the format you...
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The Essential Guide to the FLSA’s Wage and Hour Requirements
When it comes to the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), there are many potential missteps that small businesses can make. Unlike some laws, the FLSA doesn’t generally have exemptions for small businesses. If your company earns at least $500,000 a year or has employees...
EEO-1 Report Deadline Extended to October 30
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) requires certain companies over a certain size to submit a report categorizing their employees by race/ethnicity, gender, and job category. This demographic survey, called the EEO-1, is due by October 30 (most years...
Tying Values & Noncash Rewards
Noncash Rewards Most Effective When Tied to ValuesThese are challenging days for employee rewards. With base pay increase averages continuing to hover at 3 percent or even less, employers are looking for additional ways to engage employees and reward exceptional...
Employee or Independent Contractor? A New DOL Interpretation
To help employers properly classify their workers, the Department of Labor (DOL) has issued a new Administrator’s Interpretation to explain how the Fair Labor Standards Act’s definition of employee should be understood. As opposed to focusing primarily on the amount...
Help Your Business Survive the Energy Crisis in the United Kingdom
If you operate a business in the United Kingdom, you’ve no doubt read about potential energy capacity issues that loom on the horizon. In fact, as the U.K. looks for ways to boost spare energy capacity with nuclear plants and an increase in renewable sources of...
New York Minimum Wage Increase for Fast Food Industry
On July 31, 2015, the Fast Food Wage Board filed its report with the New York Department of Labor to recommend an increase in minimum wage rate to $15 for employees in fast food establishments. The report is available by clicking here. he Wage Board recommends that...
FLSA Exempt & Non-Exempt Status Changes Coming!
Exempt Status in Jeopardy: FLSA Salary Requirements Skyrocketposted on: Tuesday, July 7, 2015The Department of Labor ("DOL") has issued proposed revisions to the Fair Labor Standards Act ("FLSA") regulations that drastically increase the minimum salary requirement for...
What Employers Need To Know About Supreme Court Gay Marriage Ruling
The Supreme Court on Friday (June 26, 2015) ruled that same-sex couples have a constitutional right to marry, meaning that same-sex marriages must be recognized nationwide. The ruling will have vast implications for employers, which until now have been operating under...
Questions on Health Care Reform Requirements & Mandates?
Healthcare Reform, PPACA, ACA, oh my. There are so many questions and so much to understand even those that work with benefits on regular basis find it daunting. We've found The Henry Kaiser Family Foundation website has some great resources. Most noteworthy to...
Supreme Court Ruling – Healthcare Reform Subsidies Legal
Today’s Supreme Court ruling and message to employers is that subsidies are legal and employers need to continue to comply with PPACA. The PPACA rules and regulations that employers know and anticipate are not changing as a result of today’s decision. As such, it’s...
OSHA’s New Guidance on Transgender Restroom Access
What employers need to be aware of related to transgender restroom access:The Department of Labor’s (DOL) Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) requires that all employers under its jurisdiction provide employees with sanitary and available toilet...
California Mandatory Sick Leave Accrual begins July 1st
In less than a month, on July 1, employees in California will begin to accrue paid sick leave under the Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act, also known as the California Paid Sick Leave Law. The new law mandates that employees who work 30 or more days within a...
5 Steps for Compensation Across Generations
(This article originally appeared as a Talent Alignment Blog By Sara Pollock of ClearCompany. At Austin HR, we tailor compensation solutions to fit the unique nature of how our clients run their business and how to maximize the potential of their workforce. Ms....
5 Reasons You’re Over-Thinking Your Leadership Decisions
(This article originally appeared in 'The People Equation' blog by Jennifer Miller)How much time each week do you spend making decisions? Likely, many of the choices you make are almost automatic, requiring little thought: attend that meeting or not? Stay late to...
How the Workforce Works Today
Turn the clock back to the ‘70s and 80s for just a moment. Remember when your mother or father left the house for work each weekday? Remember what time they returned home from work at the end of their day? How did your parents get to work? Did they take a lunch break...
Don’t Use Pay As Your Babysitter: How Managers Should Actually Manage Pay
From the 'Talent Management Excellence Essentials’ magazine’s May, 2015 issue is an article on common compensation fallacies, written by Chuck Csizmar of the CMC Compensation Group. Have you ever used a babysitter? This is when you have someone else assume your...
NC FUTA Tax Rate to Decrease for 2015 Tax Year
North Carolina's governor, Pat McCrory, has announced that North Carolina has paid off its federal unemployment insurance debt. As a result, North Carolina will not be a federal credit reduction state in the 2015 tax year. North Carolina employers will pay federal...
Biometrics: The Next Great Workplace Technology
By: Tom Loveland, Global SVP of Product Strategy If you like 007 or Mission Impossible movies like I do, then you’ve seen biometrics at work – at least the Hollywood version of biometrics. Eye scanners, fingerprint readers, and facial-recognition systems are Ethan...
Millennials – Are employers managing this shift taking place?
This year, the “Millennial” generation is projected to surpass the outsized Baby Boom generation as the nation’s largest living generation, according to the population projections released by the U.S. Census Bureau last month. Millennials (whom we define as between...
Air Travel and Productivity
By: Tom Loveland, Global SVP of Product Strategy Before air travel was ever introduced to the masses, it was evident that taking a plane ride was more designed for business than for leisure. In fact, air travel caters, in large part, to business travelers who need to...
Juggling Multiple Summer Vacation Requests
You want to support employees by providing the opportunity for work/life harmony, but you also have customers to service and a business to run. Sometimes it is difficult to juggle multiple vacation requests around popular vacation times, especially during the summer...
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