Do you have employees in Mexico? If so, listen up! The Mexico Minimum Wage Increase for 2017 was announced on December 1, 2016!
Do you have employees in Mexico? If so, listen up! The Mexico Minimum Wage Increase for 2017 was announced on December 1, 2016!
Oh my! Today – November 22, 2016 – a judge in Texas blocked federal overtime rules that would have opened up the way for pay increases and overtime pay for millions of workers across the nation. The new rule was set to go live on December 1, 2016. Read on for the details…
We have recently made several updates to our HelpDesk Tool-Kits. Specifically, Accounts Receivable Collections and I-9 Compliance updates to our A/R and Payroll Compliance Tool-Kits. Do you want to see specific tools or other HELP in one of our Tool-Kits? Please, contact us and tell us what you need. We want to put all of the Help we can […]
Well, the fun just never ends. USCIS has announced increases to the penalties for errors made on completion of Form I-9, along with penalties for many other infractions. One of the most common penalty types has nearly DOUBLED. Read on to see how this may affect your I-9 practices.
Wage and hour issues are a serious subject with the Department of Labor. No employer wants to be in a position to pay heavy fines and penalties because they violated overtime laws or possibly didn’t classify an employee properly. But guess what. Employers aren’t the only folks out there that have to be concerned about […]
Hey Compliance Warriors! USCIS told us to expect the new I-9 on November 22, 2016. SURPRISE! They posted it yesterday afternoon, November 14, 2016. Read on…
The FLSA pay-docking rules are fairly unclear. Usually, they don’t permit deductions from an overtime exempt employee’s salary. The regulations state that the amount of money an overtime exempt employee earns cannot be dependent on the number of days or hours they’ve worked. Also, you cannot deduct money based on the quality or quantity of work […]
Well folks, it’s just about that time. The implementation of the DOL Overtime Rule is upon us and if you have not already had a few difficult conversations, you are one of very few affected employers. Guess what? These difficult conversations are not going to stop after December 1, 2016. Going forward you may encounter […]
Does your organization currently have a written FMLA policy? In the short video below, Lisa Smith discusses the Department of Labor’s new FMLA requirement.
So, what is this Gig Economy we hear so much about? Have you heard of Lyft, Uber, Fiverr or UpWork? These are just of couple of the websites businesses can turn to when filling a specific need for a short-term (or even long-term) project. The freelancers (on-demand workers) on these sites are the bricks in the wall […]