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Employee vs. Independent Contractor: Do You Know the Difference?
Employers owe contractors far fewer obligations than employees. Employers take a risk when they classify someone performing services for them as an independent contractor instead of an employee.
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Taking Issue With the Term “Wage Theft”
Yes, we have a wage-and-hour problem in this country. Wage-and-hour non-compliance, however, is a sin of omission, not a sin of commission. Employers aren't intentionally stealing; they just don't know any better.
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They Are Worth More
That $8.25 an hour is a wage you pay to high school kids living with their parents, not an adult trying to live a decent life in a U.S. city.
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SCOTUS: Picking Off Individual Plaintiffs Moots Wage and Hour Collective Action Claims
The issue the Supreme Court faced in Genesis Healthcare Corp. v. Symczyk was whether a case becomes moot when the lone plaintiff receives an offer from the defendants to satisfy all of the plaintiff’s claims. Last December, I predicted an employer loss in this case. I’m happy to report that my ...
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New York City Fast-Food Workers Strike to Protest Wage Rates
Workers formed picket lines outside some New York City fast-food eateries to protest their wages and hours as part of a unionization campaign.
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Taking Better Care of Those Who Care for Seniors at Home
Some 6 million seniors employ in-home caregivers for daily assistance, and that number is expected to double by 2030. Yet many in-home caregivers struggle to make ends meet. More than 90 percent are women, nearly half are minorities, and 40 percent rely on Medicaid and food stamps.
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6th Circuit Holds That an Insurer's “Special Investigators” are Exempt Administrative Employees
Because courts give employees the benefit of any doubt with exemptions, you should not classify an employee an exempt unless it is a reasonably clear case. You may think you are saving a few pennies in overtime, but you will spend a whole lot more defending your decision in court if challenged.
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'Time-Off Plans': An Alternative to Comp Time
'Time-off plans' may be an efficient and economic to manage employee pay. But how does an employer ensure a plan complies with the Fair Labor Standards Act?
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The One Question I Would Ask President Obama During the Debates
With this election cycle's debates on the horizon, I'll be providing the one question I would ask each of the two presidential and two vice presidential candidates.
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The Midnight Shift Returns as Automakers Boost Output
By the start of 2013, 22 of the 83 assembly plants in North America will operate with three shifts of workers, and nearly half of all vehicles built here will come from a three-shift plant.
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Waste Workers' Wages Reduced in Scranton, Pennsylvania
Mayor Chris Doherty reduced the entire city's payroll to $7.25 an hour, including his own, the Times-Tribune of Scranton reported. Policemen and firefighters are included in those who saw their pay slashed, after the mayor said the city doesn't have enough money to pay its employees their regular
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Despite What Some Think, Employers do not Set Out to Cheat and Steal
Paychecks and timesheets are neither a ploy nor a tactic. Instead, most employers are well-intentioned but ignorant of the myriad, twisted rules and regulations that govern why, when, to whom, and how much overtime is to be paid.
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'Miss Lilly' Speaks Her Mind
In this Q&A, Workforce senior editor Ed Frauenheim speaks with Lilly Ledbetter about the act named after her and why she believes equal pay is an important concept for employers to latch onto.
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The Five Little Words That Will Cause Your Company a Huge Headache
It is immeasurably less expensive to get out in front of a potential problem and audit on the front end instead of settling a claim on the back end.
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How Do We Get People to Work Overtime?
Aside from a few people, we have a horrific time getting employees to work overtime. We have to practically beg for volunteers. We're considering a rotating schedule of mandatory on-call weeks in which the entire workforce shares the inconvenience of pulling extra hours. Would this work? What else
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Report: Wage-and-Hour Suits Hit Record Number
The claims forming the bulk of these numbers include: misclassification of employees, alleged uncompensated 'work' performed off the clock and miscalculation of overtime pay for non-exempt workers.
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Turkey Processing Company Must Pay $1.3M to Disabled Workers for 'Severely Substandard' Wages
On Sept. 18, Judge Charles R. Wolfe of federal district court for the southern district of Iowa in Davenport ordered Hill Country to pay $1.3 million to workers for jobs they performed under contract at a turkey processing plant in West Liberty, Iowa, between 2007 and 2009, according to the EEOC.
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Ford Seeks to Close $15-an-hour Canada Labor Gap With U.S.
Ford, which lists 7,400 employees at five plants in Canada on its website, pays $79 an hour for wages and benefits to its hourly workers in the country, said the official, who asked not to be identified because negotiations with the union are private. That labor rate is the highest Ford faces ...
