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Where your religious-accommodation responsibilities stop

04/01/2005

Issue: How far must you go to oblige an employee’s religious practices under federal job-discrimination law?
Benefit: A new ruling says that you don’t need to accommodate religious requests when …

Monthly pay is OK, but keep payday consistent

04/01/2005

Q. Doesn’t federal law say employees must be paid within two weeks of completing their work, no matter the excuse (computer glitch, etc.)? —A.L., Virginia

Remind managers to prevent ‘off-the-clock’ work

03/01/2005

Telecom giant Cingular settled a Labor Department audit last month by paying $5.1 million in back wages to more than 25,000 customer-service reps and agreeing to create a new time-reporting review …

You can exclude vacation pay from ‘Regular rate’

03/01/2005

Q. When we are figuring employees’ base pay for overtime calculations, can we exclude their vacation pay? —R.J.D., South Dakota

Employ teens? Review new list
of ‘too dangerous’ positions

02/01/2005

The U.S. Labor Department unveiled new limitations on the type of responsibilities you can hand teen employees in certain industries. The new regulations, which take effect Feb. 14, revise child-labor rules …

Encourage staff volunteerism, but don’t link it to pay, promotion

02/01/2005

Heads up: More employers are heaping legal trouble on themselves by tracking employees’ volunteerism ef-forts and, in some cases, using that information (either directly or indirectly) as a prerequisite for promotions …

Travel Time Is ‘Work Time’ if It Cuts Across Workday

02/01/2005

Q. We hired a new branch manager in a one-person office in another town. Because she earns $19,240 a year, she doesn’t meet the new annual threshold of $23,660 for exempt status, correct? Several times a year, she escorts trips involving overnight stays. While she’s out, she forwards her calls to the host office and closes her doors. How do we compensate her? Am I right that she has to be considered "hourly"? And how do we compensate for the overnight and travel time? —K.H., Kansas

FLSA

Where your religious-accommodation responsibilities stop

Monthly pay is OK, but keep payday consistent

Remind managers to prevent ‘off-the-clock’ work

You can exclude vacation pay from ‘Regular rate’

Employ teens? Review new list
of ‘too dangerous’ positions

Encourage staff volunteerism, but don’t link it to pay, promotion

Travel Time Is ‘Work Time’ if It Cuts Across Workday

Beware time clock ’rounding’ errors; push for an upgrade

Employ teens? See new list of ‘too dangerous’ jobs

Beware of costly time-clock ’rounding’

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