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Wage and Hour: California Supreme Court Opens the Floodgates for Meal and Rest Period Suits and Expands Damages Available for Violations; Steps You Should Take Now
Short Takes: Waiting Time Penalty
Short Takes: Records Inspection
I understand that under California law, I have to allow current and former employees access to their personnel files and records that relate to the employee’s performance or to any grievance concerning the employee “at reasonable times and intervals.” But some of our employees are making a lot of requests. So what does “at reasonable […]
Affirmative Action: Do We Have to Resurvey Our Employees’ Race and Ethnicity for 2007?
We are trying to get ready for our EEO-1 reporting for September 2007, when the new form with the new breakdown of race and ethnicity comes into play. I have two questions: 1. Do we have to resurvey our employee population for this? How would we go about getting them to self-identify? And if they […]
Equal Pay: How Do We Fix Potential Discrimination Problems We Discovered During an Internal Audit?
During our own audit of our pay for salaried workers, we discovered some discrepancies that I think might be questionable if someone were to sue us for discrimination. Statistically, it appears that we may be underpaying women as compared to men in the same job groups, but regional pay differences and other factors such as […]
Alternative Workweeks: Court Rejects Employer’s Challenge to Wage Order 16; Overview of Alternative Workweek Requirements
Recordkeeping: How Do I Handle a Social Security No-Match Letter?
I just received a no-match letter for one of our employees. I seem to recall hearing about another HR manager who got in big trouble for mishandling one of these—can you fill me in? — Anonymous
The 9 Deadly Sins of Hiring and Recruiting (Part 1)
A top employment lawyer has listed 9 huge mistakes to avoid in hiring and recruiting. Today, the first four. Tomorrow, the rest. You’ve probably heard the old expression, “the 7 deadly sins.” Well, that doesn’t apply to hiring and recruiting. That’s because we have it on good authority that, in hiring, there are 9 such […]
Product Recall
LITIGATION VALUE: $45,000 Creed’s actions in setting up Debbie Brown to be fired for his mistake were not, in and of themselves, illegal. And, if Dunder Mifflin acted in good faith when it fired Debbie, then it probably didn’t do anything illegal either. At least not on the facts in this episode. Employees can be […]