The High Cost of Poor Supervision
Yesterday’s CED detailed a significant report by the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) on the importance of supervisors to business.
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HR Recordkeeping Simplified
How important is it to keep accurate employment records? Not very, some might say, but they’d change their tune as soon as the lawsuits started to fly.
70% or More Not in FLSA Compliance
The feds estimate that 70 percent of employers are not in compliance with the federal Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). “That’s a gross understatement,” says William J. Anthony, Esq. He suspects that it’s more like 95 percent that are not in compliance with either federal or state laws on wage and hour matters.
Free Report Friday: Job Descriptions in California
Job Descriptions in California: How To Tackle Tricky Drafting Hurdles
Are You Ripe for a Wage/Hour Lawsuit?
One of the key areas of concern for employers in the wage/hour arena is the misclassification of employees, says Marc Jacuzzi, Esq. of Simpson, Garrity, Innes and Jacuzzi, PC, in South San Francisco.
Wage/Hour Litigation = Easy Money for Lawyers
Wage-and-hour rules have been around for nearly three-quarters of a century—ever since FDR’s New Deal—so it’s hard to picture them triggering the next wave of employment litigation, but attorney Marc Jacuzzi, Esq. thinks otherwise.
Should You “Friend” Your Boss?
On Fridays, California Employer Daily will often be given over to an “E-pinion” column by Jennifer Carsen, Esq., ERI’s Managing Editor. If you’ve got an idea for a 500-700 word column on any topic of interest to California employers, we’d love to have you as a guest columnist. Just describe your idea in a brief […]
Why That Great Business Idea Won’t Work for You
On Fridays, California Employer Daily will often be given over to an “E-pinion” column by Jennifer Carsen, Esq., ERI’s Managing Editor. If you’ve got an idea for a 500-700 word column on any topic of interest to California employers, we’d love to have you as a guest columnist. Just describe your idea in a brief […]
Tube Tops, Tattoos, and Piercings- Oh My!
Here comes summer: The worst time of the year for dress code violations. Today we’ll take a look at what you can and can’t do with dress code and appearance policies.
From the CEA Mailbag: Paying Employees for On-Call Time
The best questions always come from our CEA subscribers—the ones toiling away in the HR trenches. During each month we’ll reprint some of the questions they’ve put to our editors, and the answers we’ve provided. Here’s one that many employers have wondered about: What are the pay requirements when a non-exempt employee is on-call by […]