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When exempt ‘managers’ do all work, expect lawsuits

When retail managers you classify as exempt from the Fair Labor Standards Act’s overtime provisions end up doing the bulk of the work in the store, you may have a misclassification problem.

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Which laws are keeping HR up at night?

Compliance priorities tell us more than where HR’s attention is focused—they reveal where organizations feel most vulnerable. Brightmine’s State of Legal Compliance and Employment Law 2025 Report highlights the laws that dominate HR’s compliance agenda, and where attention may not match the real risks.

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Pay-transparency expansion leaves compliance gaps

States across the U.S. continue to pass pay-transparency laws. But the U.S. Pay Transparency Index 2025 from beqom, a compensation management platform, reveals that even where laws are strict, compliance lags.

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Consider your options: PAID or opinion letter?

By now, you likely have heard about the Trump administration’s renewal and expansion of the Payroll Audit Independent Determination program. Employers should know that there is another DOL-sanctioned option that’s especially useful if they’re not quite sure that what they have done is a violation.

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Beyond overtime: What OBBBA’s payroll provisions mean for HR

The One Big Beautiful Bill Act brings sweeping payroll and tax changes that HR teams must quickly adapt to—some already in effect as of Jan. 1, 2025.

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Communicating OBBBA’s tips/overtime changes to employees

Here’s a template you may use to explain the salient details of deductions for tips and federal overtime to employees.

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Which DOL regs could vanish? Top 4 to watch

The Department of Labor has identified over 60 regulations for elimination, part of President Trump’s executive order “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation.”

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Equal pay: Document how and why jobs differ

The only way for an employer to defend an Equal Pay Act lawsuit is to prove that the jobs aren’t substantially similar—or that the pay difference is attributable to some factor other than sex.

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The overtime exclusion in the OBBBA couldn’t be more confusing

You may need to spend some quality overtime hours trying to figure out exactly what the overtime exclusion in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act means and Payroll’s role in it. Because the more we read, the more questions we have.

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Subminimum wage reinstated

The DOL announced on July 7 that it was withdrawing a proposed rule to stop issuing certificates allowing some employers to pay workers with significant physical or mental disabilities a subminimum wage.

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