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Month: September 2017
How to set up online New Hire Reporting in Florida
All Florida employers are required to report new hire information to the State of Florida. Online reporting is faster, easier, free and reduces the risk of error or unreadable information on paper-based forms. Here is how to set it up: Go to the New Hire Reporting website. Click the “register” button Click on the “employer”......
EEOC Ditches Plan to Require Wage Data on the EEO-1 Form
The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) recently announced that the upcoming EEO-1 reporting form will not contain pay data collection information – confirming that the Trump Administration was ditching plans developed by the Obama Administration to expand the data collected on the EEO-1 form by adding a requirement to repor...
Is a Company required to pay employees for weather closings?
Last Saturday and Sunday, Hurricane Irma stormed its way across Florida closing businesses, forcing evacuations and crashing power lines. Almost all businesses were closed Friday through Tuesday, and some even longer if power was lost. What are the rules for paying employees when a company is forced to close due to severe weather? The answer......
What if a Company does not properly designate an FMLA absence?
For many reasons, a company (with at least 50 employees) may forget, or simply neglect to provide an eligible employee with the proper FMLA paperwork before or during their leave of absence. If this happens, does the employer need to offer the affected employee with a new 12 weeks of FMLA leave, re-sent the original......
Obama Overtime Rule is Invalidated
On August 31, a federal judge hearing the case challenging the validity of the Obama Administration’s controversial new overtime regulation ruled that the key provisions were unlawful. The regulations, developed in 2016, had nearly doubled the salary level required to qualify a worker for an exemption from overtime (the Fair Labor Standards...
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