Employers may want to lessen their COVID-19 safety protocols as vaccines become more widely available and state and local governments ease their restrictions, but employment law attorneys caution employers not to move too quickly.
Each year, an estimated 500 million workdays are lost to alcohol-related issues, costing $240 billion annually — and 72 percent of that is due to lost wages from reduced work productivity. Since April is Alcohol Awareness Month, which was created […]
A health care staffing agency should have included weekly per diem benefits in their traveling clinicians’ regular rate of pay for purposes of calculating their overtime pay, according to the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Several years after the “ABC” test was first used in California to distinguish between independent contractors and employees, the controversial law continues to change as it is amended and more exceptions are made.
A new survey by the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM) shows that administrative professionals are highly valued by managers and colleagues. Separately, SHRM reports pay ranges and median compensation for clerical and administrative staff.
In a workplace that has never had a formal HR function–just people completing HR tasks–what should be the first steps in building a department from the ground up? Career columnist and former HR professional Martin Yate suggests getting help from […]
The Department of Labor issued much-anticipated cybersecurity best practices for employee retirement plans. Responsible plan fiduciaries, the guidance says, are obligated to ensure proper mitigation of cybersecurity risks.
Nearly two-thirds—62 percent—of employed Americans do not think the government should require people to get a COVID-19 vaccination, according to new research from the Society for Human Resource Management. However, a slight majority of respondents do think employers should make […]
With a new fire season approaching, has the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) developed additional regulations to address the hazards and mitigation of employee exposure to wildfire smoke? The emergency wildfire smoke regulations promulgated by Cal/OSHA and […]
Policies that set and adjust pay for remote workers based on local factors are becoming more common among employers. For many, however, overhauling pay structures to account for geographic differences can seem daunting.
