#2 Business Pitfall to Avoid: Not Paying Required Travel Time

#2 Business Pitfall to Avoid: Not Paying Required Travel Time

Do you pay your employees to travel between work sites? Let’s talk before the Department of Labor knocks on your door. The U.S. Department of Labor requires employers to pay for travel time. The DOL’s website says, “Time spent traveling during normal...
Speed Up Payday with Hassle-free, Automated Drive Time & Mileage

Speed Up Payday with Hassle-free, Automated Drive Time & Mileage

Panic sets in! Payroll is due tomorrow, and your desk is littered with piles of employee handwritten timesheets. The law requires companies to pay employees for their drive time, but tracking it is a logistical nightmare. Your tedious, head-pounding workaround takes...
Surprise Announcement About New FLSA Rule

Surprise Announcement About New FLSA Rule

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...

New Overtime Rules – Don’t Panic

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...