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Snapshot: States benefiting most from the new overtime rules

06/03/2016
Some states will see more than 4% of workers be newly eligible for OT under the new labor rules.

Was it forced retirement or just a resignation?

06/02/2016
An employee facing the prospect of being demoted, transferred or having to take on new duties may consider retiring instead.

‘No commission’ ad doesn’t destroy exemption

06/02/2016
A recent court decision is good news for employers of commissioned, exempt salespeople that also imply in their advertising that the salespeople don’t work on commission.

Snapshot: Who benefits from DOL’s new white-collar overtime pay rules?

06/02/2016
The Department of Labor says new federal rules will make 4.2 million more white-collar workers eligible for overtime pay.

Do OT rules mean end of exempt part-timers?

06/02/2016
The new overtime rules for white-collar employees could force some employers to reconsider allowing part-time work for exempt staff—or to seek ways to reclassify those positions as nonexempt.

Bonus time is headache time for the professionals in payroll

06/01/2016
If you’ll be paying nonexempts an annual bonus this month, and they’ve worked overtime during the year, you need to go back over the entire year, figure those bonuses into their regular rates of pay and then refigure their overtime rates. Let’s do the math.

Punching the clock, packing on the pounds

06/01/2016

Feel like you’re gaining weight sitting behind your desk? You’re not alone.

You provide vacation. Why don’t employees take it?

06/01/2016
Memorial Day—the unofficial start to summer—just whizzed by, which means that employees will be scrambling to take vacation days, extending long weekends and otherwise causing havoc with scheduling. Or maybe not.

June 2016: Employer’s business tax calendar

05/31/2016
Here’s your monthly guide to critical payroll due dates.

Special analysis: Severance policies may be ERISA plans

05/30/2016
As if you didn’t have enough to worry about with withholding and reporting taxes, federal appellate courts have recently chimed in on whether and how ERISA, the federal benefits law, applies to severance pay policies.