That’s what the Red Queen told Alice at the beginning of Through the Looking Glass. You may feel like that sometimes, when you consider keeping up with changing requirements for posters and forms. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and the New Jersey Division on Civil Rights issued new mandatory posters […]
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09
Apr
2019
$300 Wage Dispute Leads to $66K Fee Award
You can’t make this up: A lawyer who disputed an employee’s $303 unpaid wage claim has been ordered to pay the employee’s lawyer $66,510 in attorney’s fees. Stratton v. Beck, 30 Cal. App. 5th 901 (2018) began when attorney Thomas E. Beck’s employee of two months, Anthony Stratton, quit and […]
Read moreTo help businesses comply with the more than 100 wage, safety, and benefits laws handled by the Department of Labor, the DOL has created the Office of Compliance Initiatives. The OCI will work with the DOL’s various agencies (OSHA, Wage and Hour Division, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs, etc.) […]
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I am pleased to announce that I will be teaching the “Certificate Program For HR Generalists” seminar, which will be held in New York City 2/19/2018-2/21/2018. This course has been designed to provide you with practical solutions to the HR challenges you confront every day. You’ll get the vital knowledge […]
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29
Jul
2016
Mid-Year Federal Poster Updates–Get Yours Now!
The US Department of Labor has announced 2 revisions to their posters. Please be sure that you post the July 2016 versions of the Employee Polygraph Protection Act poster, https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/eppac.pdf, and the Fair Labor Standards Act poster, https://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/posters/minwage.pdf. And do it right away–the new posters are mandatory as of August […]
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