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Month: September 2019
New Overtime Rule: Exempt Threshold To Increase from $23,660 to $35,568 January 1, 2020
WHAT HAPPENED? This Tuesday (September 24, 2019), the Department of Labor announced the following changes to the FLSA’s white-collar overtime exemptions, to become effective January 1, 2020: The minimum salary threshold for exempt status will be $684 per week, annualized to $35,568 per year. The highly compensated employee exemption’s total...
We Conduct Publix Independent Third Party Immigration Reviews
Companies throughout Florida continue to contact Consultstu LLC to conduct a third-party immigration audit to meet the mandates of being a supplier of equipment or construction services to Publix Super Markets, Inc. Publix expects all of its Suppliers to comply with all applicable federal, state and local laws and regulations, including the rules...
How to Write a Performance Improvement Plan (PIP)
Hiring and training new employees (if you can find them) is expensive and time-consuming. Due to this dilemma, we are often contacted by Florida small business owners to discuss ways to positively address employee performance problems, in hopes of saving a productive employee. So, before firing an employee, what can be done to save the......
Florida Work Comp Rates May Decrease 5.4% in 2020
According to an August 29,2019 press release by the Florida Office of Insurance Regulation, the National Council on Compensation Insurance (NCCI), the company who files on behalf of Florida’s workers’ compensation insurance companies, submitted a rate filing for a proposed overall average statewide workers’ compensation premium decrease o...
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