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January 2016

During late November, at a conference at the American Bar Association’s Labor and Employment Law Section, Solicitor of Labor Patricia Smith, stated it was likely that the new white collar eligibility rules will not be issued until late 2016.  One of the reasons for the time frame is that DOL received approximately 270,000 comments about the pro...
Some employers forget that minimum wage laws do not allow employers to charge employees for the purchase or rental of the uniforms and possibly cleaning to the extent it causes an employee’s pay to fall below minimum wage or statutory overtime.  The situation particularly comes into play where employers charge employees a lump sum for uniforms ...
Each employer with 50 or more full-time employees (30 hours or more per week) must provide employee-specific information to the IRS about the health coverage offered during 2015, whether healthcare benefits are offered or not.  The employer must send a Form 1094-C to the IRS, which gives a company level overview of the benefits offered and hours work...
When an employer violates the I-9 paperwork or discrimination requirements, either USCIS (for paperwork violations) or the Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices (for discrimination violations) will initiate an action for penalties against the employer.  The employer has the opportunity to settle or to fight.&nb...
There seems to be a trend developing among many employers of eliminating annual performance reviews, and instead relying on more constant feedback.  Kiplinger reports that some 6% of Fortune 500 employers have recently eliminated the process and that many more are likely to follow.  The theory is that ongoing feedback on a quarterly, monthly or ...
Two little known aspects of the so-called "budget deal" of the Bipartisan Budget Act of 2015, significantly affect employment.  One provision amends the Federal Civil Penalties Inflation Adjustment Act of 1990 to require all agencies with civil monetary penalties covered by the statute to adjust those penalties to represent the change in the consumer...