We like to talk about buckets around here. No, not the cracked 5-gallon buckets that my parents used as flower pots. Instead, we use buckets to illustrate the power of our Payroll Snapshot to track employee hours with variable pay rates – because as you know, all hours are not created equally. Your service-based business […]
Don’t let this happen to you. In June 2015, FedEx settled with workers in California for $228 million who sued the company for misclassifying them as independent contractors instead of employees. Workers in many other states have also filed suits against FedEx for this misclassification which deprives individuals of employment benefits such as workers compensation, […]
Small businesses and self-employed workers may have caught a break. Is that a band of angels singing hallelujah? Last week the Department of Labor finalized the expansion of Association Health Plans (AHPs). And you may be asking, “what are Association Health Plans?” According to the Department of Labor, AHPs “are group health plans that employer […]
Today is the first day of Summer and in many parts of the country, especially the South and Southeast, it’s a scorcher. We want to pass along some advice to the thousands of remote employees who use our mobile timekeeping system to clock in and out who do work outside. These landscapers, painters, construction tradesmen, […]
It’s been said that “as California goes, so goes the country.” This certainly seems true with culture, but California is relatively unique in one aspect: its overtime laws. While most states enforce overtime pay of 1.5 times regular pay for weekly hours over 40, California overtime has extra layers, like a Mission Burrito. These extra […]
32,900 results in .31 seconds. I did a Google news search on “overtime lawsuits” and that’s how many hits the Google machine returned faster than I can type “holy moly”. Businesses are being sued at an alarming rate for failing to properly pay overtime. Between 2000 and 2015, wage and labor dispute lawsuits skyrocketed by […]
If your remote, hourly employees travel from job site to job site and you don’t pay travel time, we need to have a talk. You may be unaware that this travel time is required pay by the U.S. Department of Labor. According to its website, “Time spent traveling during normal work hours is considered compensable […]
You look at the scattered piles of employee handwritten timesheets on your desk and panic begins to set in. You have to get payroll turned in tomorrow. The law requires that these employees be paid for their travel time, but tracking it all is a logistical nightmare. It might surprise you to know, our research […]
June of this year we posted about the new overtime rule in the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) that was scheduled to take effect on December 1. The new rule would have impacted more than 4.2 million Americans by raising the exempt salary threshold to $47,476. In a surprise announcement last Tuesday, November 22, 2016, […]
The Department of Labor is affecting business owners in a big way. We are privileged to have this detailed explanation from Matt Lapointe, a business lawyer with Wetherington Hamilton, P.A. in downtown Tampa, www.whhlaw.com. Matt advises business owners on regulatory compliance, financing, contracts and many other areas. NEW OVERTIME RULES DON’T PANIC – […]
