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10 Tips to Ensure HR Compliance at Your Small Business
For your company to do its best, your HR policies must be in compliance with federal, state, and local laws. Unfortunately, this can be challenging for many small businesses. There are just so many different regulations that it can be hard to keep up. When companies...
10 Tips to Ensure HR Compliance at Your Small Business
For your company to do its best, your HR policies must be in compliance with federal, state, and local laws. Unfortunately, this can be challenging for many small businesses. There are just so many different regulations that it can be hard to keep up. When companies...
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Best Practices for Setting HR Priorities at Your Small Business
When businesses reach a point where they have 16 to 49 employees, certain compliance laws start to kick in. You need to prepare for additional laws and regulations as early as you can. Additionally, this is a good time to get your organizational culture, employee...
Proposed Federal Minimum Wage Increase
On June 6, 2012, Republican Jesse Jackson introduced the Catching Up to 1968 Act of 2012, a bill to raise the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) minimum wage from $7.25 per hour to $10.00 per hour (beginning 60 days after enactment). The Bill also proposes that...
Supreme Court Upholds Individual Health Insurance Mandate
The U.S. Supreme Court announced its much-anticipated decision on the Obama administration’s health care reform law on June 28, 2012, ruling 5-4 that the controversial individual mandate, which requires virtually all Americans to buy health insurance, is...
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Overtime Claims
U.S. Supreme Court Rejects Overtime Claims in FLSA RulingBy Allen Smith 06/18/12Rejecting the U.S. Department of Labor’s interpretation of Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) regulations, the U.S. Supreme Court on June 18, 2012, ruled 5-4 in Christopher v. SmithKline...
EEOC Guide to Arrests and Convictions in Employment Decisions
On April 25, 2012, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC or Commission) issued its Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42...
OSHA Annual Summary Posting Deadline
By February 1, 2012, an employer subject to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) recordkeeping provisions for 300 logs regarding workplace injuries and illnesses must post its 2011 annual summary (Form 300A).
OFCCP Proposal to Improve Job Opportunities for Individuals with Disabilities
The U.S. Department of Labor’s Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) is proposing a new rule that would require federal contractors and subcontractors to set specific hiring goals regarding employees with disabilities, including a goal for federal...
Social Security and Medicare Tax for 2012
The employer tax rate for social security remains unchanged at 6.2%. On wages paid and tips received before March 1, 2012, the employee tax rate for social security is 4.2%. On wages paid and tips received after February 29, 2012, the employee tax rate for social...
NEP on Recordkeeping
As a reminder, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) launched its “National Emphasis Program (NEP) on Recordkeeping” last year after various studies revealed that many companies were underreporting or incorrectly reporting workplace-related injuries...
Social Security Benefit Increase
On October 19, 2011, the Social Security Administration (SSA) announced the monthly Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits will increase in 2012. The 3.6 percent cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) will begin with the January 2012 benefit...
OSHA Whistle-Blower Claims
Published in the Federal Register on November 3, 2011, the U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced Sarbanes-Oxley Act whistle-blower claims may now be filed orally. The final rules revise existing regulations and public comments must be...
IRS Mileage Rate
The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) optional standard mileage rate of 55.5 cents/mile for business miles expires on December 31, 2011. The IRS has not yet announced if the rate will be different in 2012.
OCR Privacy and Security Compliance Audits
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) is responsible for privacy and security enforcement under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the Health Information Technology for Economic and...
Right to Know Rule
By October 2011, the Wage and Hour Division seeks to issue a proposed rule updating the recordkeeping regulations under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in order to enhance the transparency and disclosure to workers of their status. The recordkeeping requirements...
American Jobs Act
On September 12, 2011, President Obama revealed the Jobs Bill that encompasses several employment-related provisions. Some of the provisions offer relief from payroll taxes and provide tax credits for hiring the long-term unemployed individuals and veterans. More...
OSHA’s 2011 Site-Specific Targeting Plan
On September 9, 2011, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced its 2011 Site-Specific Targeting (SST) plan, the agency's annual inspection program for general industry establishments with high numbers of injuries and illnesses. This year's...
Executive Order 13495 Final Rule
On August 29, 2011, the Department of Labor's Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued a final rule to implement President Obama's Executive Order 13495, Nondisplacement of Qualified Workers Under Service Contracts. The Executive Order requires federal contractors and...
Health Insurance Premium Tax Credit
On August 12, 2011, the Departments of Treasury and Health and Human Services released Proposed Regulations to provide guidance to individuals who enroll in qualified health plans through State-based Exchanges, as envisioned under the Affordable Care Act, and to...
Proposed Parental Bereavement Act
On July 13, 2011, the Parental Bereavement Act was introduced in Congress. The bill would amend the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) by adding a new job-protected leave category for the death of an employee's son or daughter. If passed, an eligible employee...
New NLRB Notice Required
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) issued a final rule requiring most private-sector employers to notify employees of their rights under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). The NLRB will enforce employers to post a new NLRA notice in the workplace. The...
DOL To Coordinate With IRS
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis, on Sept. 19, 2011, hosted a ceremony at U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) headquarters in Washington, D.C., to sign a memorandum of understanding with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that will improve departmental efforts to end...
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