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If you could design the perfect “Return to Work from COVID-19” HR-compliance presentation…
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Ok, confession time.
I’ve procrastinated on preparing the slide deck for my upcoming presentation, A Return to Work from COVID-19: EEO and Other Employment Law Considerations, for the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Continue reading
U.S. Department of Labor slims down and gets more user friendly. Too creepy?
Let’s start over with a less awkward headline.
Ok, here goes…
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Four ways to avoid wage and hour worries when employees work remotely
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Hopefully, you know by now that you should be tracking the time of non-exempt employees working remotely during this pandemic. If this is news to you, well…
But, have you figured out an excellent way to track hours that an employee works, even though s/he isn’t scheduled to work those hours? Continue reading
An internal DOL audit reveals the three ways in which COVID-19 has hampered the agency
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Let’s give credit where credit is due. When Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division had the unenviable task of creating and implementing supporting guidance, enforcing the law, and tending to all of its other responsibilities. All during a COVID-19 pandemic.
It wasn’t going to be perfect. Continue reading
🚨DORK ALERT!🚨 The DOL answers some nerdy COVID-19 FMLA and FLSA questions.
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Perhaps they wanted to upstage my triumphant return to Zoom for a COVID-19 HR lunchtime happy hour spectacular, which is this tomorrow at noon EDT (register here). Continue reading
Why now is a great time for a wage and hour self-audit. Wait! Hear me out on this…
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Near the end of last month, I blogged here about this Wage and Hour Division (WHD) Field Assistance Bulletin. The U.S. Department of Labor announced that, in most instances, it would no longer pursue pre-litigation liquidated damages arising out of a wage and hour investigation of your company. Continue reading
How a negative COVID-19 test turned into an FLSA collective action.
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The Families First Coronavirus Response Act requires certain employers to provide employees with paid sick leave for specified reasons related to COVID-19. One of those reasons is when an employee is experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and is seeking a medical diagnosis. Continue reading
The DOL issued five new FLSA opinion letters yesterday. But, the much bigger wage and hour news was…
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Yesterday morning, I received a press release from the U.S. Department of Labor. Continue reading
DOL: COVID-19 is not an excuse to skip your employees’ paychecks. Plus details on Friday’s Zoom chat
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About a month ago, a hairstylist filed a COVID-19 class-action lawsuit in New Jersey. Her claims were the prototypical lowest-hanging fruit.