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Under both federal and California law, exempt employees generally must be paid their full pre-determined weekly salary for every week that they perform any work. As a result, employers may make only limited deductions from the pay of exempt employees. Our lists of permitted and prohibited deductions will help you determine when you can deduct […]
When both husband and wife work for the same employer, sometimes leave is limited to 12 weeks between the spouses, and sometimes they both get 12 weeks of leave. Today, we let the “FMLA Bible” sort it out. When Leave Is Limited When two spouses work for the same employer, the amount of FMLA leave […]
The following is a list of the bestselling hardcover business books as ranked by the New York Times with data from Nielsen BookScan on April 11. 1. The Money Class: Learn to Create Your New American Dream by Suze Orman. The noted personal financial adviser offers a reconsideration of the American dream. 2. Tell to […]
Intermittent leave under the FMLA—#1 headache of HR managers year after year. But you can’t escape it. Today’s Advisor gets into the details of variable schedules and part-timers. What’s an Hour? The first step in dealing with reduced and intermittent leave under the FMLA is to calculate how many “hours” of leave an employee is […]
Different types of interviews have different goals. The traditional interview seeks a broad knowledge of the candidate’s qualifications, while the behavioral interview looks at how he or she has performed on the job. There’s even a situational interview that presents scenarios that might be faced on the new job and asks how the candidate would […]
By Dan Oswald President, M. Lee Smith Publishers Just My E-pinion If you’re a pilot or paratrooper or skydiver, you pretty much depend on the person who packs your parachute. In today’s e-pinion, M. Lee Smith Publishers LLC president Dan Oswald challenges you to ask, Who packs your parachutes? Charles Plumb was a Navy jet […]
The HR Daily Advisor® announced today the release of a free report for HR Managers, Essentials of Successful Harassment Prevention. This report will be available for a limited time in order to help HR professionals train their workforce on harassment prevention. “Sexual harassment problems devastate employees and organizations every day, but they can be prevented […]