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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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.
Read MoreCompliance 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.
Read MoreStates 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.
Read MoreBy 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.
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreHere’s a template you may use to explain the salient details of deductions for tips and federal overtime to employees.
Read MoreThe Department of Labor has identified over 60 regulations for elimination, part of President Trump’s executive order “Unleashing Prosperity Through Deregulation.”
Read MoreThe 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.
Read MoreYou 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.
Read MoreThe 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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