State minimum wage increases. Florida’s minimum wage increases on January 1, 2017, to $8.10 per hour and tipped minimum wage increases to $5.08 per hour. Both the federal and the state minimum wages are required to be posted at work in an area for employees to easily see. Additionally, employers […]
Last month, twenty-one states sued the US Department of Labor challenging the implementation of new modernized overtime rules which promise to expand overtime eligibility to 5 million workers, including nearly all salaried employees who earn up to $47,476. Hours later, in the same federal court, fifty business groups, including the […]
New Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) rules go into effect on December 1, 2016, expanding overtime eligibility to 5 million workers including nearly all salaried employees who earn up to $47,476. That’s right, currently exempt salaried employees who make less than $47,476 are likely to be entitled to overtime under […]
With the rapid changes in social media and the addition of livestreaming video, it seems impossible to keep workplace policies up to date. But, that doesn’t mean you should not try. Consider Facebook Live which launched in April 2016 with an aggressive push to get regular users to watch and […]
On April 5, San Francisco became the first U.S. city to guarantee new parents time off that is fully paid to provide care for their new child. While the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) has long required that employers with 50 or more employees provide 12 weeks of […]