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Healthcare Reform – Employer Mandate Penalties

The Employer Mandate is the Health Care Reform provision that requires all employers with 50 or more full time equivalent employees to offer a certain level of health insurance coverage at an affordable rate to all full-time employees, or face a penalty. The Employer...

New Rules for Reporting Injuries & Illnesses (OSHA)

New OSHA Rule Changes Employers' Injury/Illness Reporting RequirementsOn September 11, 2014, OSHA issued a final rule regarding employers' recordkeeping and reporting of occupational injuries/illnesses. The final rule takes effect on January 1, 2015, and includes a...

Password Protection Laws

In 2012, Maryland became the first state to prohibit employers from requiring employees or job applicants to provide passwords to their personal social media accounts. Since then, the trend for states to limit employers' access to personal online content has been...

Contraceptive Mandate Accommodation

Agencies Release New Accommodations from Contraceptive Mandate for Nonprofit Organizations and for Closely-Held, For-Profit Corporations Agencies Release New Accommodations from Contraceptive Mandate for Nonprofit Organizations and for Closely-Held, For-Profit...

New York City Earned Sick Time Act (Paid Sick Leave Law)

Effective April 1, 2014, under the New York City Earned Sick Time Act, certain employers with five or more employees who are hired to work more than 80 hours a calendar year in New York City must provide paid sick leave which employees can use for the care and...

Exempt & Non-Exempt – LinkedIn in the News

LinkedIn forks over $6 million in back wages, damages for unpaid overtimeLabor Department accused the company of shortchanging 359 workersIt doesn’t pay to short employees for working overtime. Just ask LinkedIn.The U.S. Labor Department announced on Monday that the...

Background Checks-When do they Cross the Line

Employers have become well-attuned to the importance of selecting job candidates that are qualified and will fit well with the organization’s culture. Prior to extending an offer of employment to a viable candidate, best practices in conducting a background check are...

Religion in the Workplace

We all know that Title VII of the Civil Rights Act prohibits discrimination based on a job applicant’s or employee’s religion. However, did you know that federal Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) laws also require employers to provide workplace accommodations to...

How Asure Software Views The Changing Business Climate

By Craig SeagerChannel Director for EMEA/APACIn my first Channel-focused blog post we discussed how important we view our Asure Software relationship with our Channel partners.Now I want to share our view of how the business world is evolving and the benefits we see...

Tech Companies & Cool Cultures

Twitter tops all in culture and values, employees sayTech industry accounts for 11 out of 25 companies rated highest by employees, according to Glassdoor report.Roof-top meetings and friendly colleagues helped to make Twitter’s employees the happiest in the country,...

Asure Channel Partners

By Craig SeagerChannel Director for EMEA/APAC The Ever-Changing Global Enterprise Is Ripe for Asure Software Solutions A recent report by IDC listed Alignment, Agility and Analytics as three of the key corporate challenges in 2014.These challenges and the current...

5 Ways LinkedIn Could Have Avoided Wage Violations

LinkedIn’s recent class action settlement cost $6 million in back wages and fines to the U.S. Department of Labor and added it to the over 30,000 cases that the Wage and Hours Division pursues each year.  Annually,  over a quarter million workers are impacted in cases...

Three Trends of Our Changing Workforce- Part 4

By Jennifer Roth, Vice President of MarketingIn recent weeks, I’ve blogged here, here and here about the trends of globalization, mobilization and technology. When thinking about today’s workforce and your own workspace, you must have your eye on all three because...

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