United States: New Relationships With Your Business' Managers, Administrators And Professionals? The Labor Department's Forthcoming Overtime Regulations

Some time this autumn, the US Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Administration will send a draft proposed regulation to the Office of Management and Budget’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA). This regulation, if it is finalized, will make important changes to the rules governing whether executive, administrative and professional employees must receive time and one-half their regular hourly rate of pay for hours worked in excess of forty in a week […]

By | October 3rd, 2014 ||

New California Law Will Require Nonprofits To Provide California Employees With Paid Sick Leave

Effective July 1, 2015, the California Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act of 2014 will impose new paid sick leave requirements on California employers.
The New Law Covers Virtually All Employers, Including Nonprofits
Almost all employers, regardless of size, are covered by the new California law. The new law does not contain an exception for small nonprofits or nonprofits with fewer than a particular number of employees. There are very narrow exceptions to the law, such as […]

By | October 2nd, 2014 ||

United States: SHRM: Confront Employees Who Perpetrate Domestic Violence

My colleague Tyrone Thomas was quoted in a SHRM article entitled Confront Employees Who Perpetrate Domestic Violence in which he comments on ways employers can investigate an employee’s alleged off-duty, off-site domestic violence. The article focuses on employers’ courses of action when they suspect an employee is committing domestic violence.

By | October 2nd, 2014 ||