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Employers also should carefully review existing guidance to verify their understanding of what bonuses and incentive payments qualify as nondiscretionary for purposes of the WHD regulations as employers frequently underestimate and inappropriately fail to take into account bonus or other incentive compensation when calculating overtime that WHD views as nondiscretionary and therefore required to be included when calculating and paying overtime.Additionally, employers relying… [read post]

Companies already face issues of how to monitor employees for illness to reduce the transmission of COVID-19 in the workplace while maintaining a safe environment for those employees who must be in the workplace rather than working from home. [read post]

If an exempt employee works even one hour in a regular workweek, he or she is entitled to a full week’s salary. [read post]

The article below addresses another aspect ofemployees moving from one company to another -- agreements between two or more competitive corporations not to solicit, or hire, each other's employees. [read post]

What is the employer’s liability to a former employee who is dismissed from a fixed-term contract without cause, when that employee mitigates his or her loss by finding another job? [read post]

For example, at one of the initial hearings in this case on the amount of salary Mr. [read post]

5 Feb 2014, 6:33 am

So, if the legality of the California rule isn’t the problem, what remains is pure policy. [read post]

With salaried employees, a business knows in advance what it will have to spend on those employees over the course of a month, a quarter, or a year. [read post]

Sadly, some companies use a practice of splitting a foreign employee’s pay, with part of the salary being paid to a Chinese bank account, and another part being paid to a bank in the employee’s home country [or Hong Kong], typically using some foreign (non-Chinese) agency to wire money to the home country. [read post]

When the DoL finally did so in November 2009, it caused a lot of concern and confusion by mandating that employers use a specific form that failed to account for the myriad of ways that employees may lawfully be paid in NY, and failed to address exempt employees. [read post]

The company is organized in three business units: Legal Solutions accounts for half the company’s business. [read post]

But thanks to DOHSA, the most BP could owe them is the equivalent of Gordon's salary over his working life, minus what he would have paid out in taxes and personal expenses. [read post]

16 Jun 2010, 3:53 pm

But thanks to DOHSA, the most BP could owe them is the equivalent of Gordon's salary over his working life, minus what he would have paid out in taxes and personal expenses. [read post]

You can do this thing, or if this thing violates your religion you can do another thing. [read post]

If you are a business or an employee faced with a misappropriated trade secret issue, contact an experienced employment law attorney in Scottsdale, AZ for guidance. [read post]

Many employers, however, have been considering what actions they might to assist employees after loss of employment in light of this national health emergency. [read post]

Over time the union’s rhetoric will focus more and more on employee issues, both real and imaginary. [read post]

At least one of those two employer options almost certainly would not impose a substantial burden on the plaintiffs’ exercise of religion—even on their own account of their religious obligations. [read post]

18 Dec 2019, 4:00 pm

It offers insight into what these developments mean for employers and plan sponsors and previews developments we expect to see in 2020. [read post]

For now, only a travel warning for Hubei Province has been issued. [read post]