Compensation
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FAQ: The Pay Period Leap Year Pitfalls
Recently, I heard from a reader who had a question about how the Pay Period Leap Year worked in practice.…
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FLSA FAQs: Pay Agreements and Changing Employee Pay Rates
For many employers and employees, a new year means a review of pay levels and new agreements about pay going…
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53 Fridays: The 2021 Pay Period Leap Year
We have reached the first non-holiday Friday of 2021, which means today is the first payday for many employers (including…
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Lessons from the DOL’s Recovery of Backpay from Chick-Fil-A Franchisee for Improper Uniform Deductions
Last week, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced that it had secured over $12,000 in back wages for 184 employees…
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FLSA FAQ: The FLSA and Coronavirus: Paying Employees during the COVID-19 Outbreak while minimizing Wage and Hour Risk
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, first identified in Wuhan, Hubei Province, China is increasingly creating challenges for employers in the United…
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The New FLSA “Regular Rate” Clarifications: The TL;DR Version
Over the past week, we have taken a detailed look at the DOL’s new regulations affecting the calculation of the “regular…
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The New FLSA “Regular Rate” Clarifications: Part 3
On January 15, the DOL’s new regulations affecting the calculation of the “regular rate” of pay took effect, in an attempt to…
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Final Wages: Paying Accrued Leave at Termination
Earlier this month, we discussed the range of issues that an employee departure can raise for employers. One of the…
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Are Employers Required to Pay Workers for Holidays?
In our last post, we talked about unlimited vacation, but this time of year, vacation is obviously not the only…
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Don’t Get Carried Away with the Pay Period Leap Year
Yesterday, we discussed the Pay Period Leap Year and what it means for employers. If your first weekly paychecks would…
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