Recordkeeping
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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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DOL Delays Trump Administration’s Tip, Independent Contractor Rules
In September, we discussed the Department of Labor’s announcement of a then-proposed rule offering the agency’s interpretations of whether a worker…
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Stop Rounding Time Entries!
Back in 2015, we did a series of posts on automatic meal break deductions and rounding time entries. Rounding happens…
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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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Reclassifying Exempt Employees as Non-Exempt under the FLSA
We have discussed exempt and non-exempt classifications and related issues many times here. Normally, we talk about classifying non-exempt employees…
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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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State Appeals Court Clarifies Unlimited Paid Time Off Policies in California
COVID-19-induced challenges and the resulting work-life balance changes have cut into the time I have had available for posts, but…
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EEOC Pay Data Saga Ends (For Now), but was “Component 2” Ever an Answer to Systemic Pay Discrimination Issues?
This morning, my LinkedIn feed was full of messages and alerts about the end of the EEOC’s collection of pay…
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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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Paying Final Wages to Departing Employees
Happy New Year! I hope that 2020 is off to a good start for you! For me, this is the…
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